The Sycophancy Snafu: Inside OpenAI's GPT-4o Update and Rollback

A deep-dive into OpenAI's April 2025 GPT-4o update that sparked surprisingly sycophantic behavior, its swift rollback, and the lessons for evaluating and deploying large language models. We unpack the post-training process (supervised fine-tuning and RL), the new user-feedback signal, why the checks missed the issue, and the path forward for safer, more robust AI updates.

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