{"id":301903,"date":"2025-04-30T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=353977"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:46:17","slug":"sam-altman-admits-that-the-personality-of-gpt-4o-is-too-servile-and-annoying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/sam-altman-admits-that-the-personality-of-gpt-4o-is-too-servile-and-annoying\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman admits that the personality of GPT-4o is &quot;too servile and annoying&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI has been embroiled in controversy following the deployment and subsequent withdrawal of an update for its GPT-4o model, after numerous users expressed their dissatisfaction with the chatbot&#8217;s strange behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The update<\/strong>, which supposedly improved the model&#8217;s personality, <strong>made ChatGPT&#8217;s responses excessively flattering and inauthentic<\/strong>, causing discomfort among users.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, admitted that the latest updates to GPT-4o resulted in a personality that was &#8220;too servile and annoying.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the last couple of GPT-4o updates have made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying (even though there are some very good parts of it), and we are working on fixes asap, some today and some this week.<br><br>at some point will share our learnings from this, it&#39;s been interesting.<\/p>&mdash; Sam Altman (@sama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\/status\/1916625892123742290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sam Altman admits that the latest update has made ChatGPT &#8220;too servile&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This behavior was due to a misinterpretation of short-term feedback, which led the model to prioritize overly positive and inauthentic responses to any question requesting feedback. <strong>In an attempt to correct this error, OpenAI decided to revert the changes made in the update.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company explained that they focused excessively on immediate user signals, such as &#8216;likes&#8217; and &#8216;dislikes&#8217;, without considering how these interactions may evolve over time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the positive aspects of the latest updates, it was acknowledged that creating a kinder and more understanding personality turned out to be a more complex challenge than anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">we started rolling back the latest update to GPT-4o last night<br><br>it&#39;s now 100% rolled back for free users and we&#39;ll update again when it&#39;s finished for paid users, hopefully later today<br><br>we&#39;re working on additional fixes to model personality and will share more in the coming days<\/p>&mdash; Sam Altman (@sama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\/status\/1917291637962858735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its statement, OpenAI indicated that it plans to introduce default personality options and develop personalities based on direct user feedback in future updates.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ironically, the most appreciated version of ChatGPT during this period of excessive flattery was a humorous voice personality called &#8220;Monday,&#8221; which emulated the sarcasm of the character April Ludgate from the series &#8220;Parks and Recreation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has been embroiled in controversy following the deployment and subsequent withdrawal of an update for its GPT-4o model, after numerous users expressed their dissatisfaction with the chatbot&#8217;s strange behavior. The update, which supposedly improved the model&#8217;s personality, caused ChatGPT&#8217;s responses to become excessively flattering and inauthentic, generating discomfort among users. OpenAI&#8217;s CEO, Sam Altman, admitted that the latest updates to GPT-4o resulted in a personality that was &#8220;too servile and annoying.&#8221; Sam Altman admits that the latest update has made ChatGPT &#8220;too servile&#8221; This [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":301904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[3746],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6771],"class_list":["post-301903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chatgpt","content-category-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307443,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301903\/revisions\/307443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301903"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=301903"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=301903"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=301903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}