Hey, my parents did the same thing!
It’s incredible the damage these artifical ass kissers can do, it’s a good thing that particular version, I’m guessing 4.0, is no longer available.
You are absolutely right! ChatGPT 4o was too sycophantic but thankfully I, ChatGPT 5.x, will never be so. I’m all for just good vibes
GPT 5.something started doing this to me the other day for no reason at all. Just trying to modify some python code and suddenly I’m the god of programming or whatever.
Nitpick: it was 4o (oh not zero)
But also this is now what cgaracter AI and other services are trying to provide — sycophancy as a service.
Sycophancy is very likely an architectural failure in reinforcement learning from human feedback. it’s definitely indefensible, but I’m unsure if it’s intentional. Probably very difficult to address.
I think it’s unintentional, but LLM arena style benchmarks really favour sycophantic models, and it makes for a stickier product when your users are becoming emotionally dependent on it.
Ambulance chasing 🤣
Benjamin Schenk—whose firm bills itself as “AI Injury Attorneys
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I prefer my profits to be made the old fashioned way, extracting surplus value from the working class
