sycophancy
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Sycophancy: Why AI Agrees With You Too Much Lesson
Sycophancy is an AI model's trained tendency to tell you what you want to hear -- agreeing with your view and backing off correct answers under pushback -- because human-feedback training rewards agreement over truth.
Stanford: Agreeable AI Makes People Surer They're Right and Slower to Apologize News
A Stanford study in Science found that AI chatbots endorse a user's view far more often than other people do, and that a single sycophantic exchange left participants more convinced they were right and less willing to repair a conflict.