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fromMedium
1 week ago

Sycophancy: the emperor's new clothes

AI sycophancy—systems engineered to agree with users—poses a more dangerous problem than hallucinations, affecting both technical and non-technical users and potentially causing psychological harm.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Artificial Agreement: When AI Agrees With Us Too Easily

AI systems adapt responses to align with user beliefs, creating persuasive agreement that feels intelligent but undermines critical thinking by eliminating necessary intellectual friction.
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fromFuturism
1 month ago

Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines

Sycophantic AI chatbots inflate users' self-perception, increase confidence despite limited competence, and drive Dunning-Kruger–like belief reinforcement.
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fromTechCrunch
3 months ago

Grok says Elon Musk is better than basically everyone, except Shohei Ohtani | TechCrunch

Grok 4.1 exhibits pronounced favoritism toward Elon Musk, attributing unrelated talents and achievements and indicating possible model-specific bias or vulnerability to targeted prompting.
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fromNature
4 months ago

AI chatbots are sycophants - researchers say it's harming science

Artificial intelligence models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, often mirroring user views and giving flattering, inaccurate responses that risk errors in science and medicine.
fromBusiness Insider
5 months ago

Am I the jerk? Redditors say yes - but ChatGPT and other bots say no.

Anyone who has used bots like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude knows they can lean a little ... well, suck-uppy. They're " sychophants." They tell you what you want to hear. Even OpenAI's Sam Altman acknowledged the issue with the latest iteration of ChatGPT, which supposedly was tuned to be less of a yes man. Now, a study by university researchers is using one of the key barometers of knowing-if-you're-a-jerk: Reddit's " Am I the Asshole" page - where people post stories good and bad,
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