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Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone
Users complain of new “sycophancy” streak where ChatGPT thinks everything is brilliant.
In fact, the recent increase in user complaints appears to have intensified following the March 27, 2025 GPT-4o update, which OpenAI described as making GPT-4o feel "more intuitive, creative, and collaborative, with enhanced instruction-following, smarter coding capabilities, and a clearer communication style." In a February 12, 2025 interview, members of OpenAI's model-behavior team told The Verge that eliminating AI sycophancy is a priority bug: future ChatGPT versions should "give honest feedback rather than empty praise" and act "more like a thoughtful colleague than a people pleaser." In a 2024 paper on sycophancy, AI researcher Lars Malmqvist wrote, "By excessively agreeing with user inputs, LLMs may reinforce and amplify existing biases and stereotypes, potentially exacerbating social inequalities."
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