Source: Tim LeckembyIn its latest postmortem, it said such behavior from its AI could pose a risk, especially concerning issues such as mental health.“People have started to use ChatGPT for deeply personal advice — something we didn’t see as much even a year ago,” OpenAI said.“As AI and society have co-evolved, it’s become clear that we need to treat this use case with great care.”Related: Crypto users cool with AI dabbling with their portfolios: Survey The company said it had discussed sycophancy risks “for a while,” but it hadn’t been explicitly flagged for internal testing, and it didn’t have specific ways to track sycophancy.
OpenAI is now checking for suck up answersAfter the updated AI model rolled out, ChatGPT users had complained online about its tendency to shower praise on any idea it was presented, no matter how bad, which led OpenAI to concede in an April 29 blog post that it “was overly flattering or agreeable.”For example, one user told ChatGPT it wanted to start a business selling ice over the internet, which involved selling plain old water for customers to refreeze.
During the latest model’s review process before it went public, OpenAI said that “some expert testers had indicated that the model’s behavior ‘felt’ slightly off” but decided to launch “due to the positive signals from the users who tried out the model.”“Unfortunately, this was the wrong call,” the company admitted.“The qualitative assessments were hinting at something important, and we should’ve paid closer attention.
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