{"id":16366,"date":"2025-08-17T23:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=16366"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:14:40","slug":"gpt-5-is-supposed-to-be-nicer-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=16366","title":{"rendered":"GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<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 launched the much-anticipated GPT-5 in a process that CEO Sam Altman admitted 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 social media post. \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, the rocky launch was the elephant in the room. 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":"<p>OpenAI announced late Friday that it\u2019s updating its latest model to be \u201cwarmer and friendlier.\u201d The company recently launched the much-anticipated GPT-5 in a process that CEO Sam Altman admitted was \u201ca little more bumpy than we\u2019d hoped for,\u201d with some users complaining that they preferred the previous model, GPT-4o. OpenAI is trying to address<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[8152,3865,9381],"class_list":{"0":"post-16366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gpt5","9":"tag-nicer","10":"tag-supposed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}