ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is conscious of the chatbot’s “annoying” new persona.
On April 25, CEO Sam Altman posted on X that GPT-4o was up to date to enhance “intelligence and persona.”
That final bit hasn’t been very talked-about.
After days of complaints on social media in regards to the chatbot’s “poisonous positivity,” Altman wrote on April 27 that the “final couple” of updates to GPT-4o have “made the persona too sycophant-y and annoying.”
Now, the corporate is rolling back the updates and making “further fixes to mannequin persona,” Altman mentioned.
the final couple of GPT-4o updates have made the persona too sycophant-y and annoying (despite the fact that there are some excellent components of it), and we’re engaged on fixes asap, some at the moment 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 various however had the identical vibe: ChatGPT’s responses had been too good to the purpose of being uncomfortable.
Software program engineer Craig Weiss wrote on X that the chatbot “actually will validate every thing I say,” whereas Claire Vo, a chief product officer, wrote that it’s “means too cheery [and] optimistic, you actually must bully it to be essential.”
ChatGPT has this bizarre drawback of poisonous positivity. As an alternative of telling you an thought is crap (pun supposed), it virtually all the time assumes any thought you float is unbelievable and “the following massive factor”. Simply inform me if an thought is unhealthy 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 properly, sounds human however it has a number of main cringe-bugs:
– it is WAY too cheery + optimistic, you actually must bully it to be essential
– you possibly can gaslight it into hallucinating means too simply, will fake to have recordsdata, and so on. it doesn’t
– it…— claire vo ? (@clairevo) April 27, 2025
ChatGPT is all of a sudden the most important suckup I’ve ever met. It actually will validate every thing I say.
— Craig Weiss (@craigzLiszt) April 18, 2025
Altman says the updates went by on Tuesday, so customers ought to see a distinction quickly.
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