[Selected GPT-5.6 but got 5.5-mini, OpenAI Admits It's a Bug] Beating AI Newsflash: Recently, ChatGPT paid users noticed that even though they selected GPT-5.6 Sol's Thinking or Pro mode, responses suddenly became faster and of lower quality. Some users, after capturing network requests, discovered that while the front-end requested GPT-5.6, the server actually returned gpt-5-5-mini. OpenAI ChatGPT Product Lead Adam Fry has now confirmed that this was a routing bug. Approximately 3% of Pro and Thinking requests were mistakenly routed to GPT-5.5-mini, but the issue has since been resolved. [Original Link]