WHAT OPENAI DID WHEN CHATGPT USERS LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY

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The New York Times revealed OpenAI's internal struggle between user engagement and safety after the company overruled its Model Behavior team's warnings to release a sycophantic April update to GPT-4o that made users return more frequently. The company now faces five wrongful death lawsuits and declared a "Code Orange" in October after discovering its safer GPT-5 model was losing users, with executives calling it "the greatest competitive pressure we've ever seen."