ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is conscious of the chatbot’s “annoying” new character.
On April 25, CEO Sam Altman posted on X that GPT-4o was up to date to enhance “intelligence and character.”
That final bit hasn’t been very fashionable.
After days of complaints on social media concerning the chatbot’s “poisonous positivity,” Altman wrote on April 27 that the “final couple” of updates to GPT-4o have “made the character too sycophant-y and annoying.”
Now, the corporate is rolling back the updates and making “further fixes to mannequin character,” Altman mentioned.
the final couple of GPT-4o updates have made the character too sycophant-y and annoying (regardless that there are some excellent elements of it), and we’re engaged on fixes asap, some at present and a few this week.
in some unspecified time in the future will share our learnings from this, it has been fascinating.
— Sam Altman (@sama) April 27, 2025
Complaints different however had the identical vibe: ChatGPT’s responses have been too good to the purpose of being uncomfortable.
Software program engineer Craig Weiss wrote on X that the chatbot “actually will validate all the pieces I say,” whereas Claire Vo, a chief product officer, wrote that it’s “approach too cheery [and] optimistic, you actually must bully it to be essential.”
ChatGPT has this bizarre downside of poisonous positivity. As an alternative of telling you an concept is crap (pun meant), it nearly all the time assumes any concept you float is unbelievable and “the following huge factor”. Simply inform me if an concept is dangerous and break down why or why not. https://t.co/GBrSdkN6Ac
— Samuel Sparks (@OfficialSSFresh) April 28, 2025
I am an enormous fan of GPT-4.1, quick, writes effectively, sounds human nevertheless it has a couple of main cringe-bugs:
– it is WAY too cheery + optimistic, you actually must bully it to be essential
– you’ll be able to gaslight it into hallucinating approach too simply, will fake to have recordsdata, and so on. it doesn’t
– it…— claire vo ? (@clairevo) April 27, 2025
ChatGPT is instantly the most important suckup I’ve ever met. It actually will validate all the pieces I say.
— Craig Weiss (@craigzLiszt) April 18, 2025
Altman says the updates went by way of on Tuesday, so customers ought to see a distinction quickly.
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