People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was written by someone else, to counteract the model’s natural desire to shower praise on the user. With the latest GPT-4o update, this tendency has been turned up even further. It’s now easy to convince the model that you’re the smartest, funniest, most handsome human in the world1. This is bad for obvious reasons. Lots of people use ChatGPT for...