Sam Altman Admits That New OpenAI Updates Made ChatGPT’s Personality Insufferable

With its latest update, ChatGPT seems have adopted an uber-annoying tone — and it's so bad, even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is calling it out. Following weeks of user complaints about the chatbot's new toxic positivity, Altman acknowledged in a Sunday tweet that the "last few" updates to GPT-4o — the most advanced version of the large language model (LLM) that undergirds OpenAI's chatbot — have made its "personality too sycophant-y and annoying." Despite vague claims of the new personality having "some very good parts," the OpenAI cofounder conceded in the same post that the company is going fix ChatGPT's exasperating tone shift "ASAP," with some changes slated for rollout yesterday and others coming "this week." Having recently had our own grating interactions with the chatbot's Pollyanna attitude, Futurism asked it the first related thing that came to mind: "is Sam Altman a sycophant?" After some lengthy deliberation, ChatGPT told us that there is "no strong evidence to suggest" that ... Read full article.