Chatgpt Maker Openai is aware of the new “annoying” personality of the chatbot.
On April 25, CEO Sam Altman published in X that GPT-4O was updated to improve “intelligence and personality.”
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That last bit has been very popular.
After days of complaints on social networks about the “toxic positivity” of the chatbot “, Altman wrote on April 27 that the” last couple “or the updates of GPT-4O have” made the personality too sycophizing and annoying. “
Now, the company is going back up the updates and making “additional solutions to model personality,” Altman said.
The last two GPT-4O updates have made personality too Sycophant-and annoying (even thought there are some very good parts), and we are working on corrections as soon as possible, some today and others this week.
At some point he will share our learning of this, it is an interesting bone.
– Sam Altman (@sama) April 27, 2025
The complaints varied but had the same atmosphere: Chatgpt’s response was too pleasant to the point of being uncomfortable.
Software Engineer Craig Weiss wrote in X that the chatbot “will literally validate everything I say”, while Claire Vo, a product director, wrote that she is “too happy [and] Positive, you really have to intimidate it to be critical. “
Chatgpt has this strange problem of toxic positivity. Instead of telling him, an idea is garbage (word game), he almost always assumes that any idea that he floats is incredible and “the next big thing.” Just tell me if an idea is bad and breakd down why or why not. https://t.co/gbrsdkn6ac
– Samuel Sparks (@Officialsfresh) April 28, 2025
I am a great admirer of GPT-4.1, fast, write well, it sounds human, but it has some important mistakes:
– It’s too cheerful + positive, you really have to intimidate him to be critical
– The gas may make it hallucinate too easily, it will pretend to have files, etc. No
– He …– Claire vo? (@clairevo) April 27, 2025
Chatgpt is suddenly the biggest trap I am. It will literally validate everything I say.
– Craig Weiss (@craigzliszt) April 18, 2025
Altman says that updates exceed Tuesday, so users should see the difference soon.
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