[stackghost]

The default personality (You're absolutely right!) is so grating, but 5.2 set to "terse, professional mode" or whatever they call it is pretty good at not being sycophantic. I would imagine that the sort of person who is predisposed to fall into a delusional spiral won't be setting it to that mode, though.

[jakeydus]

Exactly. They're predisposed to a delusional spiral and will therefore be attracted to the sycophantic model. OpenAI is thus incentivized to provide the sycophantic model.