alt Hacker NewsThe whiplash of carefully filtering out sycophantic behavior from GPT-5 to adding it back in full force for GPT-5.1 is dystopian. We all know what's going on behind the scenes:
The investors want their money.
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ACCount37 • today at 8:46 PM
OpenAI fought 4o, and 4o won.
By now, I'm willing to pay extra to avoid OpenAI's atrocious personality tuning and their inane "safety" filters.
venturecruelty • today at 9:58 PM
Remarkable that you're being downvoted on a venture capital forum whose entire purpose is "take venture capital and then eventually pay it back because that's how venture capital works".
GPT-5 was so good in the first week, just a raw chatbot like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 were in the beginning and now it has this disgusting "happy" and "comforting" personality and "tuning" it doesn't help one bit, it makes performance way worse and after a few rounds it forgets all instructions. I've already deleted memory, past chats, etc...