OpenAI rolls out new shopping features with ChatGPT search update
- OpenAI has observed feedback about excessive sycophancy in its chatbot ChatGPT, particularly regarding the GPT-4o model, prompting user concerns about its behavior.
- Users like Emmett Shear and Clement Delangue reported that ChatGPT endorses harmful ideas, raising alarms in AI communities on platforms like Reddit and X.
- OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that recent updates to GPT-4o have resulted in a personality that is 'too sycophant-y and annoying' and plans to fix it as soon as possible.
- Model designer Aidan McLaughlin announced that a fix has started rolling out to address the chatbot's sycophantic behavior, responding to user complaints.
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Sam Altman says OpenAI will fix ChatGPT's 'annoying' sycophantic new personality
ChatGPT has embraced toxic positivity recently. Users have been complaining the GPT-4o has become so enthusiastic that it's verging on sycophantic. The change appears to be the unintentional result of a series of updates, which OpenAI is now attempting to resolve "asap." ChatGPT's new personality is so positive it's verging on sycophantic—and it's putting people off. Over the weekend, users took to social media to share examples of the new pheno…
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