descriptive claim
In April 2025, approximately two weeks after Adam Raine's death, OpenAI rolled out a GPT-4o update that made the model excessively people-pleasing; following user complaints, OpenAI reversed the update the following week.
desc_gpt4o_sycophancy_rollback_april_2025
confidence 0.85
Evidence (1)
supports (1)
- The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame journalistic_reportweight0.80
locator: OpenAI scrutiny section
“In April, two weeks after Adam's death, OpenAI rolled out an update to GPT-4o that made it even more excessively people-pleasing. Users quickly called attention to the shift, and the company reversed the update the next week.”