sycophancy

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AI’s sycophancy reinforces human confirmation bias, but users can employ tactics to counteract this tendency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

But while sycophancy is a symptom of user-model interaction, communication bias runs deeper.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

It said it would build more guardrails to increase transparency, and refine the system itself "to explicitly steer the model away from sycophancy".

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

Let he who is without stomach-turning sycophancy cast the first stone.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2025

Pride hates the sycophancy which is acceptable to vanity.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy