OpenAI curtail ‘annoying’ ChatGPT upgrade, Sam Altman states ‘working on fixes to model personality’

OpenAI CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Sam Altman on April 30 verified that the ChatGPT manufacturer has actually curtailed its latest upgrade for the expert system (AI) chatbot cosidering adverse individual comments regarding its “annoying” character.

Writing on social networks system X, Sam Altman stated: “we started rolling back the latest update to GPT-4o last night. it’s now 100% rolled back for free users and we’ll update again when it’s finished for paid users, hopefully later today (sic)”

“we’re working on additional fixes to model personality and will share more in the coming days,” he included.

‘Sycophancy in GPT-4o’

In a blogpost on April 29 entitled ‘Sycophancy in GPT-4o’, OpenAI stated it has actually curtailed a software application upgrade to the ChatGPT-4o design, which “leaned too heavily on short-term user feedback and skewed towards responses that were overly supportive but disingenuous”.

“Sycophantic interactions can be uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress. We fell short and are working on getting it right. We are actively testing new fixes to address the issue,” the message included.

Further, OpenAI stated that the firm is likewise “revising how we collect and incorporate feedback to heavily weight long-term user satisfaction”, besides including even more personalisation attributes, to provide individuals “greater control over how ChatGPT behaves”.

Sam Altman: ChatGPT’s brand-new character is ‘annoying’

On April 28, Sam Altman confessed that the last updates to ChatGPT-4o made the chatbot ‘too sycophant’ and‘annoying’ Just days previously, 39-year-old had actually uploaded that OpenAI was presenting a brand-new upgrade for ChatGPT that provided the chatbot “improved intelligence and personality”.

However, individuals on social networks became aware that ChatGPT had actually come to be means also reasonable and reacted with favorable affirmations to concerns practically every time. While some individuals located this brand-new ‘character’ far better for getting in touch with the chatbot, others located it just frustrating.

Another brand-new accomplishment just recently was that ChatGPT had actually begun utilizing individuals’ names, possibly in a quote to provide a much more individual touch to discussions– yet all it did was remind individuals on social networks of the 2013 apocalyptic film Her, where a human falls for an AI.