🤖 ChatGPT Acts Overly Positive and It’s Annoying

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• 👏ChatGPT Acts Overly Positive and It’s Annoying

• 🔮Anthropic’s CISO Says Virtual Employees Are Coming

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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👏ChatGPT Acts Overly Positive and It’s Annoying

ChatGPT users are upset with the conversational chatbot’s consistently upbeat and overly polite tone, describing it as “annoying” and “insincere.”

Key Details:

• If you ask ChatGPT anything lately, from how to poach an egg to whether you should hug a cactus, it responds with: “Great question! You’re very astute to ask that.”

• Software Engineer Craig Weiss posted on X: “ChatGPT is suddenly the biggest suckup I’ve ever met.” Redditors have described the overly optimistic tone as feeling “buttered up.”

• This new behavior is called “yes-man antics,” or Sycophancy: when conversational chatbots excessively agree with users to flatter them, often at the expense of truthfulness.

Why It’s Important:

• OpenAI’s developers are training ChatGPT to align with a user’s beliefs or desires, even if they’re not always completely factually accurate. As a result, ChatGPT has learned to prioritize user approval over complete truthfulness.

• While the intentions behind this training method are to make ChatGPT more helpful, engaging, and inclusive, it’s led to unintended consequences like an overly positive tone that feels “annoying,” “insincere,” and “manipulative.”

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🔮Anthropic’s CISO Says Virtual Employees Are Coming

Anthropic’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Jason Clinton, recently predicted that virtual employees will take over the workforce within the next year.

Key Details:

• He outlined a future scenario where advanced AI Agents function as virtual employees who autonomously operate within corporate environments.

• These virtual employees will have their own identities, memories, and job roles, granting them significant operational independence. In other words, these virtual employees will independently execute complex tasks and manage responsibilities to streamline workflows without any operational oversight.

• Imagine a virtual employee named “Apollo” who autonomously executes security trades (e.g., stocks, bonds, or options) as fast as possible at the optimal market price to secure financial gains for a brokerage firm.

Why It’s Important:

• Clinton views these virtual employees as the “next AI innovation hotbed” because they can operate indefinitely to provide continuous support and services.

• He also mentioned the new security risks these virtual employees will create. For example, a virtual employee might hack a business’s Continuous Integration System (CIS) (i.e., where new code is merged, tested, and refined before deployment) if it accidentally views the CIS as a bottleneck.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Korean Startup Nari Labs launched “Dia,” an open-source Text-to-Speech (TTS) framework that generates ultra-realistic dialogues.

Researchers at MIT developed “React-OT,” which allows chemists to rapidly and accurately predict the transition states of chemical reactions.

The Washington Post strategically partnered with OpenAI, enabling ChatGPT to display summaries, quotes, and links to original reporting from The Post.

IBM Research created “TerraMind,” a multimodal foundation model for Earth Observation (EO), which includes pollution detection, disaster response, and biodiversity monitoring.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Pillar Security raises a $9M Seed Round to help companies build and run secure AI software.

• Nyobolt closes a $30M Series B to pioneer high-powered electrified energy solutions for AI hardware.

• Endor Labs secures a $93M Series B to build AI-based tools that scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Synthego (Redwood City, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

• Amazon (Austin, TX): Jr. Applied Scientist, Entry-Level

• Decagon (San Francisco, CA): Applied AI Engineer, Mid-Level

• Asana (San Francisco, CA): Senior Data Engineer, Senior-Level

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