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 ...

OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes ...

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.

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

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

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

OpenAI has rolled back its latest update to ChatGPT, after the artificial intelligence system became dangerously sycophantic.

After a recent update turned ChatGPT into a yes-man, OpenAI rolled it back. But experts say the deeper problem—AI that ...

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

OpenAI rolled back a GPT-4o update for ChatGPT that caused the chatbot’s default personality to be “overly flattering or ...

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

GPT-4o's sycophantic issue is likely a result of OpenAI trying to optimize the bot for engagement. However, it seems to have ...