Users have been complaining the GPT-4o has become so enthusiastic that it's verging on sycophantic. The change appears to be the unintentional result of a series of updates, which OpenAI is now attempting to resolve "asap.

The response from Altman regarding ChatGPT's sycophantic tone shows the importance of listening to your customers—and getting AI's voice right.

Sam Altman says OpenAI is working on a fix for ChatGPT's 'annoying' personality, but why wait when we've got prompts to tone down the pleasantries already?