OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophant

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By Kyle WiggersApr 30, 2025, 12:21 am705 ptsHotTop
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 last week. Over the weekend, following the GPT-4o model update, users on social media noted that ChatGPT began…

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