OpenAI updated GPT-5 to make it warmer and more familiar (in the sense of being friendlier) while taking care that the model didn’t become sycophantic, a problem discovered with GPT-4o.
A Warm and Friendly Update to GPT-5
GPT-5 was apparently perceived as too formal, distant, and detached. This update addresses that issue so that interactions are more pleasant and so that ChatGPT is perceived as more likable, as opposed to formal and distant.
Something that OpenAI is working toward is making ChatGPT’s personality user-configurable so that it’s…








