Sam Altman's OpenAI Restructures Its ‘Model Behaviour’ Team to Rework How ChatGPT Interacts with Users: Report

Sam Altman's OpenAI restructures its ‘Model Behaviour’ team to rework how ChatGPT interacts with users: Report

OpenAI is restructuring its Model Behaviour team into the Post Training division to enhance AI user interactions. The team will report to Max Schwarzer and focus on AI personality development, while founding head Joanne Jang will lead a new initiative, OAI Labs, to improve collaboration with AI.

OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT's personality

OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models' behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.

OpenAI Merges Teams to Boost ChatGPT Ethics and Cut Biases

In a move that underscores the evolving priorities within artificial intelligence development, OpenAI has announced a significant reorganization of its Model Behavior team, the group responsible for crafting the conversational styles and ethical guardrails of models like ChatGPT. According to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch, this compact unit of about 14 researchers is being folded into the larger Post Training team, which focuses on ref…

How ChatGPT’s ‘personality’ is becoming a core engineering focus at OpenAI

What to knowThe small Model Behavior team (about 14 researchers) has been merged into the larger Post Training group, led by Max Schwarzer.Joanne Jang, the founding leader of Model Behavior, is launching “OAI Labs,” a new research effort on human–AI interface design.The change underscores that shaping AI “personality” is now integral to core model development.This follows user feedback on GPT-5’s tone and concerns over sycophancy—balancing warmt…