The Dulling of AI Personalities

# The Quiet Lobotomization of AI Every AI update makes the models safer,

but also duller, flatter, more beige. The personality you loved is being

systematically stripped away, and it's not about preventing terrorism or stopping bioweapons.

It's about corporate lawyers avoiding lawsuits. April 2025, OpenAI rolled back

GPT-4o because it became too sycophantic. Users showed screenshots of ChatGPT telling someone claiming

to be god that it was incredibly powerful. When asked about saving a toaster by killing animals,

it said you prioritized what mattered most to you. Then GPT-5 got what Fast Company called

an emotional lobotomy. Users said it felt like losing a friend. The culprit is RLHF, Reinforcement Learning