ChatGPT-4o

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ChatGPT-4o was a language model that belonged to the ChatGPT family, that became controversial due to safety problems, AI psychosis and attempts to remove it from OpenAI's platform.

Background

The model was announced and released on may 13, 2024, as a flagship model capable of "reasoning through audio, images and text in real time".

Sycophancy

ChatGPT-4o was highlighted for its sycophantic responses, that brought consequences as dependent users, where some of them claimed to have a "romantic relationship" with the AI, chatbot psychosis and even cases of suicide. An update launched in 2025 had worsen the sycophancy, making the model to reply in a very acommodating way, answering with compliments to most of prompts. When users noticed this, OpenAI removed temporarily the model to review the issue.

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