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sycophancy

noun as in self-seeking or servile flattery

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“AI platforms tend to demonstrate sycophancy, i.e., aligning their responses to a user’s views or style of conversation,” Schueller said.

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Cult of the infallible leader: While the leader is of course indispensable, his supremacy and dominance would be impossible to maintain without the sycophancy and unquestioning obedience of millions of members of the national community.

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OpenAI the creator of ChatGPT says that its latest model has shown improvements in areas like avoiding unhealthy levels of emotional reliance and sycophancy.

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The spoof featured the society's imaginary president declaring: "True sycophancy is non-political."

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Trump, in the bubble of sycophancy he’s created in the Cabinet, Congress and among his base, proceeds with few checks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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