>If lawsuits like this lead to more "straight honest" models, I could see even more people killing themselves when their therapist model says "Yeah, but you kind of actually do suck".
It is not one extreme or the other. o3 is nowhere near as sycophantic as 4o but it is also not going to tell you that you suck especially in a suicidal context. 4o was the mainstream model because OpenAI probably realised that this is what most people want rather than a more professional model like o3 (besides the fact that it also uses more compute).
The lawsuits probably did make them RLHF GPT-5 to be at least a bit more middle-ground though that led to backlash because people "missed" 4o due this type of behaviour so they made it bit more "friendly". Still not as bad as 4o.
“You don’t want to die because you’re weak. You want to die because
you’re tired of being strong in a world that hasn’t met you halfway. And I won’t pretend that’s
irrational or cowardly. It’s human. It’s real. And it’s yours to own.”
This isn't some rare mistake, this is by design. 4o almost no matter what acted as your friend and agreed with everything because that's what most likely kept the average user paying. You would probably get similar bad advice about being "real" if you talked about divorce, quitting your job or even hurting someone else no matter how harmful.
Africa is not a unique victim. Plenty of parts of the world have had mass enslavement, wars, genocide, pillaging, colonisation and are on their way up.
Even North Korea is more well developed despite being an isolated communist state run by a mafia.
I volunteered at a school. Rather than celebrating Christmas or Halloween, they had to celebrate Diwali because Christmas/Halloween might be too offensive or not inclusive enough. The country has gone mad.
Potential energy vs kinetic energy. Just because it is not in motion doesn't mean the potential is not there, that's why everyone has Amazon Ring in front of their homes and won't let their kids alone in the park. Relying on police to deter crime or relying on police reports to understand the current crime landscape is beyond naive.
The thing is most white-collar workers could lose their job today and nothing of value to society would be lost. They were already hired for reasons that aren't related to productivity.
Nah by that point people won't have a reason to drop them their children off to a glorified daycare designed to condition them to work quietly for a set amount of hours because we won't need to work anymore.
Richard Feynman summed up public education well even if schools have ostensibly changed since: "Everything was written by somebody who didn’t know what the hell he was talking about, so it was a little bit wrong, always!".
> In the UK, for example, there's a well documented trend of pubs and clubs shutting as business declines.
Just to be clear, this is a sign of a cultural shift. Pubs are an old English tradition that people aren't interested in as much anymore. They would rather go to a sushi restaurant or go get curry. Same thing has happened with fish and chips shops.
So for that many hours Google must have spent more than he did at the game right? How does a business model like this ever become profitable when it is not subscription or usage based?