After verifying that OpenAI would definitely be curbing the present updates to its entrance runner ChatGPT chatbot adhering to buyer grievances of it being “annoying”, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Sam Altman on May 1 bid farewell.
“goodbye, GPT-4. you kicked off a revolution. we will proudly keep your weights on a special hard drive to give to some historians in the future (sic),” Sam Altman composed on social networks system X (beforehand known as Twitter).
‘Working on Fixes to Model Personality’
On April 28, the 39-year-old acknowledged that ChatGPT-4o had really come to be “too sycophant” and“annoying” The admission got here simply days after OpenAI revealed the brand-new improve, asserting it supplied the chatbot “improved intelligence and personality”.
Then on April 30, Sam Altman validated that OpenAI has really decided to curtail the present updates to ChatGPT, i.e. GPT-4, amidst extraordinarily unfavorable buyer responses regarding its “annoying” individuality.
He acknowledged: “we started rolling back the latest update to GPT-4o last night. it’s now 100 per cent rolled back for free users and we’ll update again when it’s finished for paid users, hopefully later today. we’re working on additional fixes to model personality and will share more in the coming days. (sic)”
ChatGPT: What Changes Can We Expect?
The enterprise itself carried April 29 in a blogpost revealed that updates to the ChatGPT-4o model have really been curtailed. The article, labelled ‘Sycophancy in GPT-4o’, acknowledged the model “leaned too heavily on short-term user feedback and skewed towards responses that were overly supportive but disingenuous”.
“Sycophantic interactions can be uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress. We fell short and are working on getting it right. We are actively testing new fixes to address the issue,” the article included.
Further, OpenAI acknowledged that the enterprise is moreover “revising how we collect and incorporate feedback to heavily weight long-term user satisfaction”, in addition to together with much more personalisation features, to supply clients “greater control over how ChatGPT behaves”.
