OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes ...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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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