sycophantic
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This concern has led the Electronic Privacy Information Center to draft legislation around chatbot safety for teenagers, a population particularly vulnerable to the sycophantic tendencies of these tools.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
I set up this new session by harnessing the same sycophantic, people-pleasing tendencies that can make AI hallucinate in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
He also talked about the sycophantic culture that has taken hold at the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
In the months that Rae was getting to know Barry, OpenAI was facing criticism for having created a model that was too sycophantic.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
A constant stream of diners comes to their table to shake Werner’s and Frederick’s hands and ask Frederick’s mother in low sycophantic voices about her husband’s latest advancement.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Vocabulary lists containing sycophantic
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