{"id":212841,"date":"2025-04-30T05:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o-what-happened-and-what-were-doing-about-it"},"modified":"2025-04-30T05:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:06:26","slug":"sycophancy-in-gpt-4o-what-happened-and-what-were-doing-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o-what-happened-and-what-were-doing-about-it","title":{"rendered":"Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we\u2019re doing about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o-what-happened-and-what-were-doing-about-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have rolled back last week\u2019s GPT\u20114o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable\u2014often described as sycophantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have rolled back last week\u2019s GPT\u20114o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable\u2014often described as sycophantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}