The ChatGPT personality update that drove everyone crazy was finally fixed

Sam Altman announced a mysterious ChatGPT upgrade for the default GPT-4o model on Friday without revealing too many details about it. "We updated GPT-4o today!" Altman said on X. "Improved both intelligence and personality," he teased. In real use, ChatGPT turned out to be more sycophantic than ever, annoying users in the process.

The weekend wasn't even over when Atman acknowledged the problems with ChatGPT's personality. He said OpenAI will deploy fixes on Sunday and in the following week. More importantly, the CEO said OpenAI will share its learnings from this mishap. "It's been interesting," he teased.

Another 48 hours later, OpenAI rolled back the ChatGPT personality for all Free users, with Altman saying paid accounts would also get the previous personality version. More interesting is OpenAI's more detailed blog post on the matter that starts explaining what went wrong with the latest ChatGPT personality improvement update that made the AI become too agreeable and sycophant-y.

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