OpenA rolled back GPT-4o update CEO Sam Altman called ‘sycophantic’ but experts warn there’s no easy fix to make AI less of a suck-up

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged GPT-4o had become “too sycophantic and annoying” after a recent update—raising fresh questions about whether AI can be helpful without just telling users what they want to hear.

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