Gizmodo: ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No. “Thanks to the web-scraping-for-good powers of the Internet Archive, The Washington Post got hold of 47,000 conversations with the chatbot and analyzed the back-and-forths with users. Among its findings are evidence that OpenAI’s flagship chatbot still has major sycophancy problems, telling people ‘yes’ at about 10 times the frequency it says ‘no.'”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/13/gizmodo-chatgpt-has-problems-saying-no/