Less than 48 hours after announcing an update to GPT-4o that promised improvements in “both intelligence and personality,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the chatbot had become “too sycophant-y and annoying.” In an April 27th post on X, Altman said fixes to GPT-4o’s personality would be coming “asap.”
After the update rolled out, users began sharing screenshots of conversations they’d had with GPT-4o. Regardless of what the users said, the chatbot’s response was uniform praise…
