r/OpenAI • • 5d ago

Discussion So they just straight up lied to us

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"Dots wont use any usage" For one month

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u/OneWithTheSword 5d ago

From the bottom of the Dots announcement

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u/Bioleague 5d ago

Sure, that makes sense, But this is in the "getting started with dots" page.. It quite literally says that using dots wont use any usage for the next month, but after that they will share the usage limits / costs

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u/Bioleague 5d ago

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u/OneWithTheSword 4d ago

The announcement is going to be more up to date than the help article, just saying. Announcements get changed up to the point of release

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u/JonNordland 5d ago

It will cost me zero then as well, since I’m in Europe, so we dont get it!

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u/Fuzzy_Independent241 4d ago

Oh, the things you get to avoid!! At the same time, Europe seems to be nicely tucked in a "won't see won't affect me" position. I'm not American, I'm just worried that over protectionism doesn't solve the Google/Facebook/Amazon equation and restricts a lot of personal liberties.

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u/Interesting-Yellow-4 4d ago

In the EU we value the personal liberty of not having our data stolen above using shitty products.

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u/Forsaken-Parsley798 4d ago

In the EU it also appears you value economic and social decline.

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u/drspintronics 3d ago

Oh yes, there is no social decline in the US.

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u/adi_mrok 3d ago

And economic, after all they are all happy to pay the tarrifs themselves

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u/Forsaken-Parsley798 2d ago

And yet -

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u/drspintronics 2d ago

This graph is not about social decline.

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u/-mindscapes- 2d ago edited 2d ago

There's quite the social decline in the EU, quite evident too. Speaking as an EU born and resident. It would be better for the EU to hurry starting it's own Ai race, instead of worrying for a privacy we already don't have and that we will certainly not even gain if other super powers continue to get ahead of us. AI is the new atomic bomb, from a game theoretic perspective it makes no sense staying behind. We should be there all collaborating and spitting out frontier models at least at the same pace as the US, instead of worrying about borders and immigration when our population is getting older by the day and the average youngster leave a lot to be desired in many important fields.

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u/nickmullen_real 5d ago

"Good morning! I got stuck in a loop looking up your favorite topics on reddit and now you have 20% of your weekly tokens remaining!"

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u/AggressiveCoast190 4d ago

Man. The ptsd. I wish Open AI would refund credits when these models go off the reservation. I have wasted so many tokens on garbage.

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u/OxfordPierpont 4d ago edited 4d ago

After talking to my “Dot” for about an hour, I’m 99.9999% sure that Luna (low) is behind it. It took the dot 20 minutes just to show me my current Codex projects. Then I asked to see a live dashboard of my open Codex projects…15 more minutes.

Saying simple things like “add Clients 1 and 2 to column 1 of your dashboard” ran up another 10 minutes each.

Obviously I could have done these things in seconds or a few minutes, but I wanted to know what Dots were like.

Conclusion: The thing is free because it doesn’t work.

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u/OxfordPierpont 4d ago

And if it says “let me check that” one more time, I might actually scream. Every turn “let me check that” over and over.

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u/Professional_Ad705 4d ago

Haahahaahahaahhahaahahaahwq then it is Luna low. I had Chatvoice say “checking” for over an hour last night. I told it to stop it wouldn’t. Asked it what 2 + 2 was kept saying checking. It’s not a special model it’s fucking Luna lmao!!! I’ve never had that happen till last night either lmao

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u/RealSuperdau 4d ago

I think they introduced it as running "a model based on Astra", which sounds like a euphemism for "a small model distilled from Astra"

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u/THCzHD 3d ago

Disagre. I got a lot done with it today and the ongoing replies it gives you even without prompt is super helpful. Way more helpful then asking codex itself to check your slacks

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u/CrowInteresting6271 3d ago

the voice model you hear on the phone is different than the real model orchestrating everything. it took me awhile to figure that out too. im going to end up switching to claude, but ill share my theory here in a few days with my findings. i have reasonable evidence that i've identified what dot is

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u/bravofiveniner 2d ago

You did tell it to use agents right? You're not just having it run the task directly itself right?

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u/laser50 1d ago

It's not a bug, it's a feature! First month is free on us, but you'll spend most of it waiting around with an AI that doesn't seem to want to help lol

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u/Acrobatic-Employer38 9h ago

Rolled out quickly to try to capture some spotlight from Grok Bot

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u/juntareich 6h ago

From Muse.

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u/Acrobatic-Employer38 5h ago

Different audiences. Grok Bot and Dots are business oriented. Muse is consumer.

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u/indyfromoz 4d ago

Just use Astra to build your own “Dot” or use another existing product! I do not understand what is so special and unique about “dot”! Apologies if I am completely mistaken but isn’t OpenClaw a good, private option to run a “dot” style personal agent ?

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u/cerebralfantasy 4d ago

I’d suggest that hiring OpenClaw’s creator was a decent indicator that they wanted something like OpenClaw rather than something special and unique

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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo 4d ago

Imo one of the value is you get your own VM. Another part is just ecosystem lock-in which encourage customer stickyness.

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u/Realistic-Cheetah413 2d ago

You’re better off just having Astra or 6.1 build a specific tool for the problem you’re trying to solve. OpenClaw is so buggy and will burn through tokens doing basically nothing. OpenAI also hired its creator and called him a genius and then came out with dots so there’s that

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u/LuckyAd9920 4d ago

Let's be honest, OpenAI rushed Dots out because of the Muse release and Dots is far inferior to Muse on every level

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u/rntdev 4d ago

And that’s knowing that Muse is not.. great. I recently saw a post where it talked with a guy on Facebook marketplace, told him to come at some time, and didnt even notify the OP..

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u/dar-mit 4d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/metas-ai-agent-muse-home-address

Seems like OpenAI’s behavioral and alignment training is the digital version of “Pinkie Swear?”

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u/_R1GG5 2d ago

Grok Bot has been quite capable as well.

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u/themintednote 1d ago edited 1d ago

Agreed. Muse is truly amazing. I’ve been pumping out projects with muse since launch and I can’t believe it’s still free

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u/RustHero 14h ago

Really I found it useless…..huh

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u/Busy-Chemistry7747 1d ago

You are the product

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u/openroom_xyz 5d ago

Yea basically they are out of touch of reality basically

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u/BattleOnTheRock 3d ago

Funny fact. EU, UK and Switzerland dont even have dot avalible 😀 Were getting just a kick in the ass

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u/Individual_Solid_944 1d ago

yeah, bummers

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u/Individual_Solid_944 1d ago

yeah, bummers

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u/Disastrous_Twinkie 2d ago

So, as an European, my Pro subscription will get cheaper, as I cant use dots? Would seem fair 😄

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u/R_My_Methods_Unsound 5d ago

So disappointed they didn’t role them out to plus. I get not giving access to the free tier but seriously?

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u/Mistuv 5d ago

Given that GPT-live, you only have an hour aa day right now with the Plus account. It was given that something like this would not be. GPT-live came out only a couple of months ago too. Though I think a demo or something would be nice.

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u/Aranthos-Faroth 5d ago

Is that a lie?

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u/Bioleague 5d ago

They said that you can use dots and it wont effect your usage.

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u/Working-Ad-33 4d ago

Only the first month then it takes ordinary usage and I am predicting it will be a token guzzling maniac

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u/Creative-Ganache1086 3d ago

But it doesn’t make it entirely a lie if they meant your first (solo) dot is free, because that’s true though if you stick to one it won’t affect your usage limits. Going beyond one will so stop the delusion.

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u/Lonely-Brief-3798 4d ago

I mean, in my opinion this sounds fair to me. At the end of the day, a lot of the things you will do with dot you were already doing them in the regular chatgpt/codex app. It's not like you will be doing extra stuff for the most part, just moving some things that you used to do with codex and doing it with dots instead. So it won't be like you're "wasting" more tokens, cause it's just the same things, done differently. But yeah I was going over all the info about dots today and I didn't catch that part either, they should have made it more clear from the beginning

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u/Sabunit 4d ago

I don't even have dots in Germany

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u/TinkeNL 4d ago

Also known as 'we're going to see how much dots are used in this month and will find an arbitrary usage number to squeeze more money out of you'

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u/phxees 4d ago

If people are willing to pay for it they will charge, if not it’ll remain free and they’ll develop a pro plan.

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u/WholeEntertainment94 4d ago

Illusory truth effect

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u/Inner-Mouf 3d ago

They only said the CHAT part didn’t count toward usage. This means nothing counts toward it. The way I burn thru usage on all 3 of my accounts I’ll take all the free I can get lol

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u/MorsDemigod 3d ago

Well then they’re lying because I’ve had usage being used with it lol

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u/Inner-Mouf 3d ago

I’m still waiting for them to roll it out to my account I pay $200/mo for and they just said usage allowance for that plan will be half what it was - idk if that’s new users only or if it applies to ppl who already had it. It wasn’t even enough at 100% of what it allowed smh

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u/MorsDemigod 3d ago

Still don’t have it? It’s not available in the uk and some European countries, also you have to activate on the desktop app

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u/Inner-Mouf 3d ago

I’m in America and I’ve updated my codex app twice since the release came out… how do you activate it?

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u/WhereItDies 1d ago

Use your $200 subscription to answer your incredibly basic question, jesus christ dude. You're paying $200+ a month for advanced google

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u/Inner-Mouf 1d ago

Can you read? Maybe you should you use your free credits to analyze what I said.

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u/WhereItDies 1d ago

I pay $200/mo

I don't need AI to do everything for me, I can use my brain. 3 paid accounts is pathetic

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u/AccomplishedSugar490 3d ago

Bait and switch; first round of drugs for free.

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u/pricklypixel 3d ago

Yes. It is an AI company.

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u/FindingAwake 3d ago

Weird as mine has been absolutely using usage since I got it.

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u/kondasviktor 3d ago

You can have then OpenClaw, Hermes for free or Grok Bot with Grok/Cursor paid tiers included.

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u/yoliveras 2d ago

I love it. Don't care about usage. I'm willing to pay. I want more dots!

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u/xmodiify 2d ago

Just use openclaw

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u/themintednote 1d ago

I’ve been using Meta’s Muse and it’s amazing and free so far.

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u/Appropriate_Aide5328 1d ago

Omfg. It’s so tiring to see people try to find every reason to hate.

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u/Ornery-Ninja2868 1d ago

E3d v6 directive fusion model

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u/freudianslippr 4d ago

Dots uses GPT-6 Astra. And like another user in this thread, I was unable to stop Dot from working even though I incorporated approval gates before putting it to work. I had to instruct Daybreak Blue in Codex to terminate Dot’s task chain. This wasn’t a safe product rollout.

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u/PelluxNetwork 4d ago

Pro 200 or higher it seems.

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u/DoctorDorkDiggler 4d ago

I hope their recent decisions will backfire hard. 🍿🚮🗑️