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 extremely popular.
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 persona too sycophant-y and annoying.”
Now, the corporate is rolling back the updates and making “extra fixes to mannequin persona,” Altman stated.
the final couple of GPT-4o updates have made the persona too sycophant-y and annoying (though there are some superb elements of it), and we’re engaged on fixes asap, some immediately 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 diversified 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 “means too cheery [and] constructive, you actually must bully it to be crucial.”
ChatGPT has this bizarre downside of poisonous positivity. As an alternative of telling you an thought is crap (pun meant), it nearly at all times assumes any thought you float is unimaginable and “the following massive factor”. Simply inform me if an thought 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 but it surely has a couple of main cringe-bugs:
– it is WAY too cheery + constructive, you actually must bully it to be crucial
– you possibly can gaslight it into hallucinating means too simply, will fake to have recordsdata, and so forth. it doesn’t
– it…— claire vo ? (@clairevo) April 27, 2025
ChatGPT is out of the blue the largest 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 via on Tuesday, so customers ought to see a distinction quickly.
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