Published on: 2025-06-10 20:08:12
Millions of people are now using ChatGPT as a therapist, career advisor, fitness coach, or sometimes just a friend to vent to. In 2025, it’s not uncommon to hear about people spilling intimate details of their lives into an AI chatbot’s prompt bar, but also relying on the advice it gives back. Humans are starting to have, for lack of a better term, relationships with AI chatbots, and for Big Tech companies, it’s never been more competitive to attract users to their chatbot platforms — and keep
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last month, OpenAI rolled back some updates to GPT-4o after several users, including former OpenAI CEO Emmet Shear and Hugging Face chief executive Clement Delangue said the model overly flattered users. The flattery, called sycophancy, often led the model to defer to user preferences, be extremely polite, and not push back. It was also annoying. Sycophancy could lead
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last month, OpenAI rolled back some updates to GPT-4o after several users, including former OpenAI CEO Emmet Shear and Hugging Face chief executive Clement Delangue said the model overly flattered users. The flattery, called sycophancy, often led the model to defer to user preferences, be extremely polite, and not push back. It was also annoying. Sycophancy could lead
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 20:50:01
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Last week, OpenAI pulled a GPT-4o update that made ChatGPT “overly flattering or agreeable” — and now it has explained what exactly went wrong. In a blog post published on Friday, OpenAI said its efforts to “better incorporate user feedback, memory, and fresher data” could have partly led to “tipping the scales on sycophancy.” In recent weeks, user
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