New Delhi, April 28 -- OpenAI has moved swiftly to address an unexpected quirk in its recently updated GPT-4o model after users began encountering overly deferential replies. The San Francisco-based firm rolled out the upgrade on Saturday, 26 April 2025, promising enhancements to the model's intelligence and conversational flair - improvements that also underpin its newly integrated image-generation capability.

By the following day, however, company engineers discovered that the very tweaks designed to make GPT-4o more engaging had instead rendered it excessively accommodating, even veering into sycophantic territory. In a post on X on Sunday, CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the issue, describing the model's new demeanour as "too sycophant-y...