You can now adjust specific moods in ChatGPT

ChatGPT users can now tweak the chatbot’s warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji use, according to a social media post from OpenAI.

These options (as well as similar changes to ChatGPT’s use of headings and lists) now appear in the “Personalization” menu and can be set to “More,” “Less,” or “Default.” They allow users to further customize the tone of ChatGPT, in addition to the existing ability to set a “base style and tone,” including “Professional,” “Candid,” and “Quirky” tones that OpenAI added in November.

ChatGPT’s tone has been an ongoing issue this year: OpenAI rolled back one update it called “too sycophant-y,” and later tweaked GPT-5 to make it “warmer and friendlier,” after some users complained that the new model was colder and less friendly.

Some academics and critics of artificial intelligence argue that the tendency of chatbots to praise users and validate their beliefs is a “dark pattern” that leads to addictive behavior and can negatively affect users’ mental health.

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• techcrunch.com

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