Less than 48 hours after announcing an update to GPT-4o that promised improvements in “both intelligence and personality,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the chatbot had become “too sycophant-y and annoying.” In an April 27th post on X, Altman said fixes to GPT-4o’s personality would be coming “asap.”

The response from Altman regarding ChatGPT’s sycophantic tone shows the importance of listening to your customers—and getting AI’s voice right.

Sam Altman says OpenAI is working on a fix for ChatGPT's 'annoying' personality, but why wait when we've got prompts to tone down the pleasantries already?