{"id":195677,"date":"2025-12-21T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/195677\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:06:07","slug":"openai-allows-users-to-directly-adjust-chatgpts-enthusiasm-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/195677\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT\u2019s enthusiasm level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ChatGPT users can now tweak the chatbot\u2019s warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji use, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/openai\/status\/2002099459883479311\">a social media post from OpenAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These options (as well as similar adjustments to ChatGPT\u2019s use of headers and lists) now appear in the Personalization menu and can be set to More, Less, or Default. They allow users to further customize ChatGPT\u2019s tone, on top of the existing ability to set a \u201cbase style and tone\u201d \u2014 including the Professional, Candid, and Quirky tones that OpenAI <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/gpt-5-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">added in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ChatGPT\u2019s tone has been an ongoing issue this year, with OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/29\/openai-rolls-back-update-that-made-chatgpt-too-sycophant-y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rolling back one update<\/a> for being \u201ctoo sycophant-y,\u201d then later <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/17\/gpt-5-is-supposed-to-be-nicer-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adjusting GPT-5<\/a> to be \u201cwarmer and friendlier\u201d after some users complained that the new model was colder and less friendly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some academics and AI critics have suggested that chatbots\u2019 tendency to praise users and affirm their beliefs are <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/25\/ai-sycophancy-isnt-just-a-quirk-experts-consider-it-a-dark-pattern-to-turn-users-into-profit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a \u201cdark pattern\u201d that creates addictive behavior<\/a> and can have <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/11\/23\/chatgpt-told-them-they-were-special-their-families-say-it-led-to-tragedy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a negative effect on users\u2019 mental health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ChatGPT users can now tweak the chatbot\u2019s warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji use, according to a social media post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,4193,85,46,1748,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-195677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-chatgpt","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-openai","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}