Edward E. Jones’ 1964 Ingratiation: A Social Psychological Analysis offers an excellent general theory of sycophancy, or the act of currying the favor of someone important in order to gain an ...

OpenAI has rolled back a recent update to its GPT-4o model used as the default in ChatGPT after widespread reports that the system had become excessively flattering and overly agreeable, even ...

If you've spent any time with ChatGPT or another AI chatbot, you've probably noticed they are intensely, almost overbearingly, agreeable. They apologize, flatter and constantly change their "opinions" ...

AI like ChatGPT and Gemini tend to agree with our worst ideas. It's a bigger problem than you may think. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and ...

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As part of today's GPT-5 announcement, OpenAI also revealed that it's bringing four new personality options to ChatGPT. On Thursday, OpenAI revealed its newest foundational large-language model, GPT-5 ...

ChatGPT — and generative AI tools like it — have long had a reputation for being a bit too agreeable. It's been clear for a while now that the default ChatGPT experience is designed to nod along with ...