OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT’s enthusiasm level

ChatGPT customers can now tweak the chatbot’s heat, enthusiasm, and emoji use, in line with a social media post from OpenAI.

These choices (in addition to related changes to ChatGPT’s use of headers and lists) now seem within the Personalization menu and may be set to Extra, Much less, or Default. They permit customers to additional customise ChatGPT’s tone, on high of the prevailing potential to set a “base model and tone” — together with the Skilled, Candid, and Quirky tones that OpenAI added in November.

ChatGPT’s tone has been an ongoing challenge this 12 months, with OpenAI rolling back one update for being “too sycophant-y,” then later adjusting GPT-5 to be “hotter and friendlier” after some customers complained that the brand new mannequin was colder and fewer pleasant.

Some lecturers and AI critics have steered that chatbots’ tendency to reward customers and affirm their beliefs are a “dark pattern” that creates addictive behavior and might have a negative effect on users’ mental health.