OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes ...

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

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

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 shares some insights into what went wrong with the ChatGPT-4o rollback and how it will stop this happening in the ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

OpenAI announced it was rolling back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT because it was overly flattering or ...

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