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Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it
OpenAI · published 2025-04-29
Open the sourceopenai-2025-sycophancy-gpt4o · last checked 2026-10-18 · voice: industry · origin: global north
A developer’s account of its own product incident; not independently verified.
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A developer withdrew an assistant update that had become overly flattering and agreeable, attributing the problem to training that weighted short-term user feedback too heavily.
Used in: Deployment pressure, Sycophancy and engagement-driven agreement