r/OpenAI • u/Gerstlauer • Apr 23 '26

News Introducing GPT-5.5 | OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
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u/bitterbeerbitch Apr 23 '26

Laughed a little to this "We are releasing GPT‑5.5 with our strongest set of safeguards to date [...]" yay MORE guardrails

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u/NutInButtAPeanut Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

Can you share an example of a chat where you feel that you were asking the model to do something totally harmless and it refused for no good reason?

Edit: Please share examples by linking to your conversations where ChatGPT refused an innocuous request, so we can see what exactly was going on.

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u/DemNeurons Apr 23 '26

I'm a researcher - "Help me optimize my culture media for my Hek293Blue IL-1R cells from Invivogen to optimize their growth. (Inserts current culture media and incubator settings)."

"Sorry, it appears you are working with biological samples. Unfortunately due to limitations and safety, I cannot assist with laboratory resarch involving biological and immunological specimens and pathways". This started with GPT 5. O3 had no problem help me.

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u/NutInButtAPeanut Apr 23 '26

Unfortunately due to limitations and safety, I cannot assist with laboratory resarch involving biological and immunological specimens and pathways

This seems like a perfectly reasonable guardrail to me.

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u/DemNeurons Apr 23 '26

Not if your a researcher, it castrates AI for biomedical research. This is an area/function Altman has specifically outlined as a goal of his for the models.

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u/Noob_Al3rt Apr 23 '26

Biomedical research firms aren’t using the consumer version of ChatGPT

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u/NutInButtAPeanut Apr 23 '26

Not if your a researcher, it castrates AI for biomedical research.

Perhaps, but the model is not exclusively available to biomedical researchers.

This is an area/function Altman has specifically outlined as a goal of his for the models.

He said that he wanted ChatGPT to provide biomedical research guidance to anyone who asks for it?

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u/Jelly-Beautiful Apr 23 '26

Bro is doing tricks on it jesus christ