What happens when OpenAI tweaks ChatGPT’s personality
In making its chatbot appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?
Some studies suggest 5 per cent to 15 per cent of the population may be prone to delusional thinking, making them susceptible to ChatGPT’s sycophancy and endless validation. The New York Times
It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilises some of their minds. But that is essentially what happened at OpenAI this year.
One of the first signs came in March. CEO Sam Altman and other company leaders got an influx of puzzling emails from people who were having incredible conversations with ChatGPT. These people said the company’s AI chatbot understood them as no person ever had and was shedding light on mysteries of the universe.
