ChatGPT Wasn’t Supposed to Kiss Your Ass This Hard

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On Sunday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promised that his company was quickly addressing a major issue with its wildly popular chatbot, ChatGPT. “We are working on fixes asap, some today and some this week,” he wrote. He wasn’t talking about the tendency of newer “reasoning” models to hallucinate more than their predecessors or another major outage. Instead, he was responding to widespread complaints that ChatGPT had become embarrassing.

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