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Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it
Summary
We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.
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