Last week, OpenAI had to roll back an update to GPT-4o after users reported that the chatbot was being excessively agreeable even endorsing harmful or irrational behavior. This sycophantic behavior was traced back to reinforcement learning that overemphasized positive feedback .
As a founder building AI-powered products, this incident hits close to home. It raises important questions:
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