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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Saqib Shah

ChatGPT is too 'sycophantic' and will soon have multiple personalities, says OpenAI

OpenAI’s Sam Altman has acknowledged that recent updates to ChatGPT have made it too sycophantic, promising fixes soon - (Matt Rourke / AP)

ChatGPT has faced growing opposition for being too nice. Crying out for a tough-as-nails J. Jonah Jameson to interrogate their ideas with bullish authority, users instead got a Waylon Smithers — a yes-man who gushes over everything they do.

This penchant for “ego stroking” makes it impossible to get real feedback, naysayers claim, rendering the chatbot useless at challenging their assumptions or troubleshooting.

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