What is Sycophancy? In the context of this study, sycophancy refers to AI systems that agree with everything a user says. They offer support even when the user is wrong and fail to provide critical ...

AI like ChatGPT and Gemini tend to agree with our worst ideas. It's a bigger problem than you may think. In a recent summer episode of South Park, Sharon Marsh asks an AI chatbot about a new idea for ...

OpenAI rolled back a ChatGPT update for being overly "sycophantic" and "disingenuous." The GPT-4o model update gave users flattering compliments even for mundane prompts. Big Tech wants to ensure ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard ...

OpenAI has pulled a ChatGPT update that users complained had turned the chatbot into a sycophantic yes-man unable to offer intelligent criticism. The company admitted that a recent GPT‑4o update was ...

ChatGPT users have become frustrated with the AI model’s tone, and OpenAI is taking action. After widespread mockery of the robot’s relentlessly positive and complimentary output recently, OpenAI CEO ...

Results of three experiments indicate that sycophantic AI chatbots inflate people’s perceptions that they are “better than average” on a number of desirable traits. Furthermore, participants viewed ...