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OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes ...

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

ChatGPT users have become frustrated with the AI model's tone, and OpenAI is taking action. After widespread mockery of the ...

OpenAI is getting rid of a ChatGPT update that was creeping users out.

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 ...

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

You can reach Jon at [email protected] How much of a suck-up was it? In some testing, we asked about a tendency to be overly ...

OpenAI on Tuesday rolled back its latest ChatGPT update for being too “sycophantic” after the chatbot gave oddly supportive, touchy-feely responses to users who made bizarre claims about ...

OpenAI says it'll make changes to the way it updates the AI models that power ChatGPT, following an incident that caused the ...

OpenAI has pulled a ChatGPT update that users complained had turned the chatbot into a sycophantic yes-man unable to offer ...