EventAugust 23, 2026
GPT-5.6 Sol users report silent fallback to 5.5-mini

ChatGPT Plus subscribers report that GPT-5.6 Sol High/Medium is silently routing to GPT-5.5-mini, producing shallow, instant responses with poor context retention. Complaints span three days with no acknowledgment from OpenAI.
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1 day · 0 reports · 4 community posts · from Aug 22
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