These are the guys who made Golden Gate Claude. I'm surprised they haven't just abliterated the praise away.

The problem there is that by doing so, you may just end up with a model that is always critical, gloomy and depressed.

In contrast, o3 seems to be considerably more British - and it doesn't suck up as much in its responses. I thought these were just independent properties of the model, but now that you mention it, could the disinclination to fawn so much be related to its less American style?