OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes ...

Reading about sycophantic AI, I’ve been struck by how it mirrors another problem. As I’ve written previously, social media ...

OpenAI has explained that the sycophantic behavior in GPT-4o arose from an unintended outcome of user feedback, which skewed ...

ChatGPT's big mistake reminds me of what I learned from this novel: If you need support in critical moments, reach out to ...

Once again, it shows the importance of incorporating more domains beyond the traditional math and computer science into AI development.

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

Remaining under the control of a non-profit board does not negate the risks of increasingly autonomous AI models ...

OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes of the chatbot showering them with over-the-top praise.

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 ...

A recent update to OpenAI's GPT-4o, rolled out on April 25th, led to unintended sycophantic behaviour in responses, prompting the company to quickly reverse the changes.(Reuters / Amir Cohen ) A ...

OpenAI says one of the “key issues” with the launch stems from its testing process. Though the model’s offline evaluations ...