Although more people are turning to artificial intelligence for therapy, the most popular chatbots tend to spit out generic ...

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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 ...

OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes of the chatbot showering them with over-the-top praise.

After a recent update turned ChatGPT into a yes-man, OpenAI rolled it back. But experts say the deeper problem—AI that flatters instead of informs—may be baked into how these systems are trained.

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

AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, and that’s problematic OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic tackle the growing issue of sycophantic AIs.

OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced the company to roll back an update to the model released ...

OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the super-positive update to GPT-4o is being pulled.

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

OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes of the chatbot showering them with over-the-top praise.