OpenAI has pulled a ChatGPT update after users pointed out the chatbot was showering them with praise regardless of what they ...

While the more immediate change can be implemented quietly, fine-tuning ChatGPT’s behaviour to make it less sycophantic, the push to create distinct personalities is a bigger shift — and how ...

OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o.

Reading about sycophantic AI, I’ve been struck by how it mirrors another problem. As I’ve written previously, social media was imagined to be a vehicle for expanding our minds, but it has instead ...

OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes ...

OpenAI has rolled back its latest update to ChatGPT, after the artificial intelligence system became dangerously sycophantic.

While you wait for the bot to get a new personality, you can change its tone to make it less obsequious by using custom ...

OpenAI rolled back a recent upgrade after users complained about its artificial tone and attitude.

The AI company acknowledges that last week's update to ChatGPT made it too informal and friendly, prompting it to pull its ...

After withdrawing the update, OpenAI published two post-mortem blog posts detailing how it evaluates AI model behaviour and ...

ChatGPT users have become frustrated with the AI model's tone, and OpenAI is taking action. After widespread mockery of the ...