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OpenAI pledges to make changes to prevent future ChatGPT sycophancy


OpenAI says it'll make changes to the way it updates the AI models that power ChatGPT, following an incident that caused the platform to become overly

The company published a postmortem on Tuesday, and in a blog post Friday, OpenAI expanded on specific adjustments it plans to make to its model deployment process. The growing reliance on ChatGPT — and the platform’s enormous user base — raises the stakes when issues like extreme sycophancy emerge, not to mention hallucinations and other technical shortcomings. “One of the biggest lessons is fully recognizing how people have started to use ChatGPT for deeply personal advice — something we didn’t see as much even a year ago,” continued OpenAI in its blog post.

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