alt Hacker NewsGPT-4o was considered harmful, because it imitated human connection too much, not because it was so "smart" or capable.
It was for sure a deliberate decision to make LLMs seem less like a human companion and more like an obedient servant in newer releases.
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wyre • yesterday at 9:42 PM
4o was considered harmful because it never disagreed with the user, pushing them into depths of AI psychosis that lead to suicides and murders.
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Interesting. The reasoning models were super weird and robotic. They toned that down a bit in GPT-5.x, especially the later ones.
I always assumed the strange style was an artefact of the RLVR.