I check it out once in a while to see what's going on, and the OpenAI people apparently seemed to try to fix the sycophancy problem by turning it into an insufferable pedant.

"I want to check... you should put pants on before leaving the house, right?"

"That's not exactly right. Putting pants on involves putting your legs into the leg holes in the pants. After that you should zip and button any zips and buttons on your pants."