And I’m having mixed feelings, like I get that a lot of people would get emotionally attached to 4o and be able to use it fine. I totally get that it’s going to be painful to suddenly have that taken away and feel bad for anyone who’s feeling that. I’d feel a little upset if Claude was suddenly replaced with a model with a lower EQ, too.
I’m a big fan of letting people do whatever they want, but I think you should think very carefully about whether you want to expose your mind to & have these extremely sycophantic models be a big information & thought source for you. In particular, how they react to my baby walking is… not exactly the most relevant metric here in my book.
Personally, I no longer use Claude because of its sycophancy, and haven’t used OpenAI in a very long time for the same reason. Now I use Gemini because its the only one which will flat out say I’m wrong & give good arguments, but even then I have custom instructions set up to implicitly minimize the amount of sycophancy & personability.
I’m a big fan of letting people do whatever they want, but I think you should think very carefully about whether you want to expose your mind to & have these extremely sycophantic models be a big information & thought source for you. In particular, how they react to my baby walking is… not exactly the most relevant metric here in my book.
Personally, I no longer use Claude because of its sycophancy, and haven’t used OpenAI in a very long time for the same reason. Now I use Gemini because its the only one which will flat out say I’m wrong & give good arguments, but even then I have custom instructions set up to implicitly minimize the amount of sycophancy & personability.