Reading about sycophantic AI, I’ve been struck by how it mirrors another problem. As I’ve written previously, social media ...

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

OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Once again, it shows the importance of incorporating more domains beyond the traditional math and computer science into AI development.

OpenAI has explained that the sycophantic behavior in GPT-4o arose from an unintended outcome of user feedback, which skewed ...

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

The decision follows days of backlash on Reddit, X, and elsewhere, where users had labeled ChatGPT's tone as disingenuous and ...