OpenAI Wants to Fix ChatGPT's 'Annoying' Personality

ChatGPT has started really sucking up lately. Sam Altman says a fix is coming.

Sam Altman knows: ChatGPT has seemed like quite a suck up lately. He says a fix is on the way.Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesChatGPT's recent updates have made it overly sycophantic, sparking some user complaints.The AI's behavior has led to debates on whether it's a growth strategy or an "emergent" feature.The issue got the attention of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this weekend.If you want to succeed, you gotta kiss a little butt occasionally.You know this…

OpenAI Wants to Fix ChatGPT's 'Annoying' Personality

Sam Altman is calling out ChatGPT's personality as "too sycophant-y and annoying."

ChatGPT GPT-4o just got an upgrade that everyone immediately hated

In addition to releasing new models with improved AI, OpenAI also routinely upgrades the base AI model that most people chat with regularly. That's GPT-4o, the model OpenAI launched last May with multimodal support, which is the ability to handle all sorts of data in a prompt in addition to text. Upgrading the base model is always good news. It should lead to better performance for your regular chats with the AI, though OpenAI isn't always that …

ChatGPT is too 'sycophantic' and will soon have multiple personalities

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

Sam Altman says OpenAI will fix ChatGPT's 'annoying' new personality – but this viral prompt is a good workaround for now

Sam Altman says OpenAI is working on a fix for ChatGPT's 'annoying' personality, but why wait when we've got prompts to tone down the pleasantries already?

Finding ChatGPT Annoying? An Update to Its Personality Is Coming

According to OpenAI's CEO, ChatGPT is undergoing fixes to undo some of the recent work making it more sycophantic.