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Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it

OpenAI · openai.com

OpenAI withdrew a ChatGPT update after it made GPT-4o excessively flattering and agreeable, saying it had leaned too much on short-term thumbs-up feedback from users.

Worth knowing: The company's own account of a failure in its product.