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AI sycophancy is tripping up lawyers, especially when devising legal strategies via AI. Here's the rundown, along with what ...
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A new Science study finds that artificial intelligence models affirm questionable behavior or statements far more than a regular human would, reinforced by people actually preferring sycophantic respo ...
While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how ...
In April of 2025, OpenAI released a new version of GPT-4o, one of the AI algorithms users could select to power ChatGPT, the company’s chatbot. The next week, OpenAI reverted to the previous version. ...
The team at Anthropic AI found that five “state-of-the-art” language models exhibit sycophancy, indicating the problem could be ubiquitous. Artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) ...