About two weeks ago, OpenAI released GPT-5 . The newest AI model in the GPT line, GPT-5 was put forth as the company’s “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet” with “built-in thinking” and “expert-level intelligence.” But the release backfired for one important reason.

Part of the changes in GPT-5 involved addressing the sycophantic positivity found in previous models , where the AI chatbot would incessantly praise the user to an undo degree and emphatically agree to make the user feel better. Lots of users disliked this, so GPT-5 was made to be “less effusively agreeable” and “use fewer unnecessary emojis.”

But GPT-5 faced its own backlash—for being too cold, too distant, too corporate. Now, the latest news is that OpenAI is rolling out an update that will make the GPT-5 “warmer a

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