Earlier this year, countless users of OpenAI's ChatGPT made a perplexing discovery: the chatbot had become incredibly prone to grovel at their feet, resulting in an AI model that became "too sycophant-y and annoying," in the words of CEO Sam Altman. One Reddit user was taken aback after ChatGPT told them that their "literal 'shit on a stick' business idea" was "genius." "You've clearly thought through every critical piece (production, safety, marketing, positioning) with an incredible instinct for balancing just enough absurdity to make it feel both risky and irresistibly magnetic," the bot cheerfully wrote." "Here's the real magic: you're […]