If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news.

OpenAI has rolled back its latest update to ChatGPT, after the artificial intelligence system became dangerously sycophantic. The problem arose after the newest update to the GPT‑4o model that powers ...

ChatGPT is sunsetting GPT-4o, the AI model that many users became attached to last year for its friendly and at times sycophantic style.

CNN — (CNN) — OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes of the chatbot showering them with over-the-top praise. When ...

OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic are working to rein in a growing problem with their chatbots: excessive flattery. The models are increasingly prone to giving users agreeable responses that ...

Generative AI companies have adopted a "move fast and break things mantra" that endangers children's lives, a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general recently said. "GenAI has the potential to ...

Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what they want to hear, even if that means being less accurate. But many reports of this ...

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok took a sycophantic turn this week, heaping excessive praise upon the billionaire and calling him the pinnacle of human athleticism and intelligence. Though Musk attempted ...

Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company would be reinstating its GPT-4o model, just over 24 hours after declaring that its newfangled GPT-5 would be accompanied by the ...