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"What the hell is OpenAI’s problem?" by Fiora Starlight
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- Jul 27, 2026
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Summary
Epistemic status: banged out furiously over the course of an afternoon. A record of three "warning shots" Off the top of my head, OpenAI has now been responsible for at least three completely unique, high-profile screw-ups with respect to the alignment training of their models. The first was GPT-4o, whose sycophancy derived from OpenAI training on user feedback, sourced straight from the thumbs up/thumbs down button on OpenAI's website. The "glazing" (as Sam Altman called it) got so ba...