OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes of the chatbot showering them with over-the-top praise.

Recent updates to ChatGPT made the chatbot far too agreeable and OpenAI said Friday it's taking steps to prevent the issue from happening again. In a blog post, the company detailed its testing and evaluation process for new models and outlined how the problem with the April 25 update to its GPT-4o model came to be.

OpenAI says it'll make changes to the way it updates the AI models that power ChatGPT, following an incident that caused the platform to become overly