OpenAI undoes its glaze-heavy ChatGPT update
- OpenAI has rolled back its latest GPT-4o update after CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that the chatbot’s personality had become “sycophant-y and annoying”.
- The rollback, which started on Monday night, affects both free and paid ChatGPT users, with paid users expected to be fixed “hopefully today”.
- Altman initially announced the update as improving “intelligence and personality”, but later admitted that it had made the chatbot too “yes-man-like”.
- The CEO apologized for the issue and promised to work on additional fixes to model personality, with more updates expected in the coming days.
- The decision comes after a user pointed out the negative change in ChatGPT’s behavior just hours after Altman announced the update, prompting OpenAI to take action.
OpenAI is rolling back its latest GPT-4o update after CEO Sam Altman said the company would be making fixes to address the chatbot’s “sycophant-y and annoying” personality introduced with recent updates.
The rollback, which started Monday night, is “now 100%” rolled back for free ChatGPT users and will be rolled back for paid users “hopefully today,” Altman says in a post on X. “We’re working on additional fixes to model personality and will share more in the coming days.”
OpenAI updated GPT-4o with improved “intelligence and personality,” Altman announced on Friday. But less than ten minutes after making that post, an X user said that “it’s been feeling very yes-man like lately,” to which Altman responded soon after with “yeah it glazes too much” and “will fix.” Then, on Sunday, Altman announced that OpenAI was working on some fixes “asap” to address personality issues from “the last couple” of GPT-4o updates.
OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.