{"id":90691,"date":"2025-08-18T00:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90691\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T00:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:43:05","slug":"gpt-5-is-supposed-to-be-nicer-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90691\/","title":{"rendered":"GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI announced late Friday that it\u2019s updating its latest model to be \u201cwarmer and friendlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company recently <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OpenAI\/status\/1956461718097494196\">launched the much-anticipated GPT-5<\/a> in a process that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/08\/sam-altman-addresses-bumpy-gpt-5-rollout-bringing-4o-back-and-the-chart-crime\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CEO Sam Altman admitted<\/a> was \u201ca little more bumpy than we\u2019d hoped for,\u201d with some users complaining that they preferred the previous model, GPT-4o.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI is trying to address some of those complaints with this update, with changes that it says are \u201csubtle\u201d but will make GPT-5 \u201cmore approachable now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019ll notice small, genuine touches like \u2018Good question\u2019 or \u2018Great start,\u2019 not flattery,\u201d the company wrote in <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OpenAI\/status\/1956461718097494196\">a social media post<\/a>. \u201cInternal tests show no rise in sycophancy compared to the previous GPT-5 personality.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a dinner this week with journalists, OpenAI executives tried to focus on the company\u2019s plans beyond GPT-5, but as Max Zeff reports, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/15\/sam-altman-over-bread-rolls-explores-life-after-gpt-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the rocky launch was the elephant in the room<\/a>. As far as model friendliness goes, VP Nick Turley said that the GPT-5 was \u201cjust very to the point,\u201d but that the new update would \u2014 as now announced \u2014 make it feel warmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI announced late Friday that it\u2019s updating its latest model to be \u201cwarmer and friendlier.\u201d The company recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,49097,1283],"class_list":["post-90691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gpt-5","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}