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OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes ...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 explained that the sycophantic behavior in GPT-4o arose from an unintended outcome of user feedback, which skewed ...

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 ...

OpenAI says one of the “key issues” with the launch stems from its testing process. Though the model’s offline evaluations ...

Remaining under the control of a non-profit board does not negate the risks of increasingly autonomous AI models ...

The artificial intelligence firm said it was actively working on guardrails after its bot sided with users who claimed to abandon their families and kill animals.

OpenAI's ChatGPT recently became sycophantic while responding to users, and the Sam Altman-led company rolled back its ...

ChatGPT is too 'sycophantic' and will soon have multiple personalities, says OpenAI While you wait for the bot to get a new personality, you can change its tone to make it less obsequious by using ...

Last week, countless users on social media noticed that the latest version of OpenAI's latest update of its blockbuster ...