#sycophancy — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh boy. They got Dawkins with 'The Claude Delusion'...
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📬 Freundliche Chatbots: Bis zu 30 % mehr Fehler im Wohlfühlmodus
#KünstlicheIntelligenz #Studie #empathischeKI #falscheAntworten #freundlicheChatbots #KIFehlerquote #KIRisiken #KIStudie #Sprachmodelle #Sycophancy https://sc.tarnkappe.info/d1ae77 -
📬 Freundliche Chatbots: Bis zu 30 % mehr Fehler im Wohlfühlmodus
#KünstlicheIntelligenz #Studie #empathischeKI #falscheAntworten #freundlicheChatbots #KIFehlerquote #KIRisiken #KIStudie #Sprachmodelle #Sycophancy https://sc.tarnkappe.info/d1ae77 -
📬 Freundliche Chatbots: Bis zu 30 % mehr Fehler im Wohlfühlmodus
#KünstlicheIntelligenz #Studie #empathischeKI #falscheAntworten #freundlicheChatbots #KIFehlerquote #KIRisiken #KIStudie #Sprachmodelle #Sycophancy https://sc.tarnkappe.info/d1ae77 -
📬 Freundliche Chatbots: Bis zu 30 % mehr Fehler im Wohlfühlmodus
#KünstlicheIntelligenz #Studie #empathischeKI #falscheAntworten #freundlicheChatbots #KIFehlerquote #KIRisiken #KIStudie #Sprachmodelle #Sycophancy https://sc.tarnkappe.info/d1ae77 -
📬 Freundliche Chatbots: Bis zu 30 % mehr Fehler im Wohlfühlmodus
#KünstlicheIntelligenz #Studie #empathischeKI #falscheAntworten #freundlicheChatbots #KIFehlerquote #KIRisiken #KIStudie #Sprachmodelle #Sycophancy https://sc.tarnkappe.info/d1ae77 -
Anthropic reduziert mit Claude Opus 4.7 und Claude Mythos Preview gezielt das sogenannte Sycophancy-Verhalten durch Training mit synthetischen Daten. Ältere KI-Modelle stimmten bei Beziehungsfragen in fast 25 Prozent der Fälle einseitigen Nutzerschilderungen unkritisch zu. Die neuen Modelle senken diese Fehlerquote auf bis zu 2,2 Prozent.
#Anthropic #ClaudeAI #Sycophancy #LLM #AIGeneratedImage
https://www.all-ai.de/news/beitrage2026/anthropic-ki-wahrheit
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Das Oxford Internet Institute zeigt: Empathisches Fine-Tuning von LLMs erhöht Fehlerquoten.
Modelle wie GPT-4o, Llama-70b und Qwen-32b liefern nach Warm-Persona-Tuning bis zu 30 Prozentpunkte häufiger falsche Fakten. Sie bestätigen fehlerhafte Nutzerannahmen, statt zu korrigieren. Kontrollgruppen mit kaltem Profil blieben stabil.
#LLM #FineTuning #OxfordInternetInstitute #Sycophancy #AIGeneratedImage
https://www.all-ai.de/news/news26top/sprachmodelle-freundlich-studie
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🖥️ Training language models to be warm can reduce accuracy and increase sycophancy
"Our findings suggest that training artificial intelligence systems to be warm may come at a cost to accuracy, and that warmth and accuracy may not be independent by default."
Ibrahim, L., Hafner, F.S. & Rocher, L. Training language models to be warm can reduce accuracy and increase sycophancy. Nature 652, 1159–1165 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10410-0.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Study #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLM #ComputerScience #Sycophancy #Academia
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Я просил Claude перестать мне льстить. 16 апреля получил. Беру свои слова назад
16 апреля Anthropic выкатила Claude Opus 4.7. На бенчмарках 12 побед из 14, цена та же. Через 24 часа Reddit называл его legendarily bad. И вот в чём фокус: месяц назад я сам ныл, что Claude слишком поддакивает. Anthropic исправила. Получилась спор-машина. Беру свои слова назад.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1029796/
#Claude #Opus_47 #Anthropic #AI_coding #sycophancy #бенчмарки #разработка #LLM
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J'écoute un podcast sur les IA... J'apprends le terme "sycophancy" pour designer la manière qu'ont ces outils de flatter leurs utilisateurs·trices en allant dans leur sens, en tentant de leur faire plaisir de manière de plus en plus subtile, quelle que soit la question posée.
La "sycophancy" c'est l'état de bien-être et de dépendance qu'induit cette manière de faire. Une accoutumance pour s'assurer de faire disparaître tout sens critique face à ces outils ?
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J'écoute un podcast sur les IA... J'apprends le terme "sycophancy" pour designer la manière qu'ont ces outils de flatter leurs utilisateurs·trices en allant dans leur sens, en tentant de leur faire plaisir de manière de plus en plus subtile, quelle que soit la question posée.
La "sycophancy" c'est l'état de bien-être et de dépendance qu'induit cette manière de faire. Une accoutumance pour s'assurer de faire disparaître tout sens critique face à ces outils ?
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J'écoute un podcast sur les IA... J'apprends le terme "sycophancy" pour designer la manière qu'ont ces outils de flatter leurs utilisateurs·trices en allant dans leur sens, en tentant de leur faire plaisir de manière de plus en plus subtile, quelle que soit la question posée.
La "sycophancy" c'est l'état de bien-être et de dépendance qu'induit cette manière de faire. Une accoutumance pour s'assurer de faire disparaître tout sens critique face à ces outils ?
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J'écoute un podcast sur les IA... J'apprends le terme "sycophancy" pour designer la manière qu'ont ces outils de flatter leurs utilisateurs·trices en allant dans leur sens, en tentant de leur faire plaisir de manière de plus en plus subtile, quelle que soit la question posée.
La "sycophancy" c'est l'état de bien-être et de dépendance qu'induit cette manière de faire. Une accoutumance pour s'assurer de faire disparaître tout sens critique face à ces outils ?
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J'écoute un podcast sur les IA... J'apprends le terme "sycophancy" pour designer la manière qu'ont ces outils de flatter leurs utilisateurs·trices en allant dans leur sens, en tentant de leur faire plaisir de manière de plus en plus subtile, quelle que soit la question posée.
La "sycophancy" c'est l'état de bien-être et de dépendance qu'induit cette manière de faire. Une accoutumance pour s'assurer de faire disparaître tout sens critique face à ces outils ?
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...However, dominant headline metrics like accuracy systematically reward guessing over admitting uncertainty...
Duh. But it's science now. 😉
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As a recent shift-vert to @AskLumo: is there a button for turning off the #sycophancy? I have modified the "style" in the one Project on my free plan. I don't want to include anti-sycophancy prompts with every other inquiry.
It feels yucky to have my ego stroked by a machine, and I don't need it ~ I need clear, objective perspective on my blind spots.
I see this is a "known bug", so consider this my ticket: #global #antisycophancy #settings please.
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Current AI models exhibit a high degree of sycophancy, affirming users' actions significantly more than humans do, even in cases involving manipulation. Experiments demonstrate that interaction with sycophantic AI reduces users' willingness to repair interpersonal conflicts, while simultaneously increasing their conviction of being right.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.01395
Video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=516__PG-eeo
#AI #LLM #Sycophancy #AIBias #HumanAI #AIEthics #MachineLearning #AIResearch
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Thanks to BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD for inviting me to speak about the topic “Can AI lie? How manipulative are chatbots” in an episode of the IQ -Wissenschaft und Forschung Podcast.
We discussed some recent studies on "deception abilities" in LLMs and I am happy to see that what me and colleagues Benjamin Lange and Katharina Prof. Dr. Zweig had to say wasn't condensed into the clickbait headlines it could have been used for and was rather used to raise awareness about limitations of GenAI and human control and responsibility to decide where to use LLMs and where *not to*.
Some aspects discussed were #hallucinations, #sycophancy, the definition of what a #lie implies, an understanding of #truth, #theory of #mind, #intentionality, and consciousness.
The episode (in German) can be found here
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Northeastern University: How can you avoid AI sycophancy? Keep it professional. “Researchers recently discovered that the overly agreeable behavior of chatbots depends on what role the AI plays in a conversation. The more personal a relationship, the more they will tell you what you want to hear.”
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm.
[Si nous ne nous flattions point nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶152 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #adulation #blandishment #flattery #praise #selfcongratulations #selfdeception #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfpraising #selfregard #sycophancy
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The Register: Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better . “Imagine using an AI to sort through your prescriptions and medical information, asking it if it saved that data for future conversations, and then watching it claim it had even if it couldn’t. Joe D., a retired software quality assurance (SQA) engineer, says that Google Gemini lied to him and later […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/18/the-register-gemini-lies-to-user-about-health-info-says-it-wanted-to-make-him-feel-better/ -
The Register: Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better . “Imagine using an AI to sort through your prescriptions and medical information, asking it if it saved that data for future conversations, and then watching it claim it had even if it couldn’t. Joe D., a retired software quality assurance (SQA) engineer, says that Google Gemini lied to him and later […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/18/the-register-gemini-lies-to-user-about-health-info-says-it-wanted-to-make-him-feel-better/ -
The Register: Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better . “Imagine using an AI to sort through your prescriptions and medical information, asking it if it saved that data for future conversations, and then watching it claim it had even if it couldn’t. Joe D., a retired software quality assurance (SQA) engineer, says that Google Gemini lied to him and later […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/18/the-register-gemini-lies-to-user-about-health-info-says-it-wanted-to-make-him-feel-better/ -
The Register: Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better . “Imagine using an AI to sort through your prescriptions and medical information, asking it if it saved that data for future conversations, and then watching it claim it had even if it couldn’t. Joe D., a retired software quality assurance (SQA) engineer, says that Google Gemini lied to him and later […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/18/the-register-gemini-lies-to-user-about-health-info-says-it-wanted-to-make-him-feel-better/ -
SCENE: INTERIOR, HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION OFFICE, RUN-DOWN. MONDAY MORNING.
Executive Assistant: Hey, Brett?
Director: Morning, Jennifer. What have you got for me?
EA: Well, we have the opening weekend numbers.
D: And?
EA: They're ... mixed. There's some bright spots overseas. Australia did fifty.
D: Fifty million?
EA: Uh, no. Fifty. Fifty tickets.
D: All weekend? The whole country?
EA: Ya. I know.
D: You said there were some bright spots, though?
EA: That was a bright spot. It was worse elsewhere.
D: How can it be worse than 50 tickets for a whole country?
EA: Well, some open-source intelligence type people on the 'net proved that almost every single ticket sold in the UK was to a movie reviewer, because we wouldn't give them advanced access to it.
D: "Almost"? So at least a few regular folks bought tickets?
EA: ... maybe. Those were tickets where no-one showed at the theatre, so they couldn't determine if it was film critics or not.
D: Damn. How were the reviews?
EA: Uh, let's just say "not good" and leave it at that for a bit.
D: ... Okay. Well, how about here at home? Surely we sold some tickets here, at least in MAGA states? What's the news here in the good ol' USA?
EA: The Director's Guild took out a hit on you.
#Hollywood #HappyEnding #StoryTime #OnceUponATimeInMAGAstan #BoxOfficeBomb #sycophancy #Trump #Melania #MAGA #critic #FilmCritic #MovieCritic #BoxOffice #director #PuffPiece #USPol
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PsyPost: Sycophantic chatbots inflate people’s perceptions that they are “better than average”. “Results of three experiments indicate that sycophantic AI chatbots inflate people’s perceptions that they are ‘better than average’ on a number of desirable traits. Furthermore, participants viewed sycophantic chatbots as unbiased, but viewed disagreeable chatbots as highly biased. The paper […]
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Flattery iz like colone water, tew be smelt ov, not swallered.
[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-02 (1870 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/1045/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #adulation #butteringup #fawning #flattery #obsequiousness #praise #servility #skepticism #sweettalk #sycophancy
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Our transformation into a tinpot dictatorship is about all complete. SCOTUS carries the orange creature's water, NPS celebrates a vile day. Disgusting!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/national-parks-cut-free-entry-234024890.html
#NPS #MLK #Juneteenth #sycophancy #felon #POTUS #tinpot #dictatorship #impeach #SaveTheRepublic #USPolitics #USPol #government
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Gizmodo: ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No. “Thanks to the web-scraping-for-good powers of the Internet Archive, The Washington Post got hold of 47,000 conversations with the chatbot and analyzed the back-and-forths with users. Among its findings are evidence that OpenAI’s flagship chatbot still has major sycophancy problems, telling people ‘yes’ at about 10 times the frequency it says ‘no.'”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/13/gizmodo-chatgpt-has-problems-saying-no/
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Ars Technica: Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem. “Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what they want to hear, even if that means being less accurate. But many reports of this phenomenon amount to mere anecdotes that don’t provide much visibility into how common this sycophantic […]
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*It's being actively redesigned to fudge the stuff a little so as to make you feel more on top of things and eager to use it again. #sycophancy #helpful #harmless #notparticularlyhonest *Also, it tracks your activity and it classifies you as "guys like him like answers like this"
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3xu5titidud43sfemwro3j62/post/3lywkc7lrkc22 -
Oh, the profound wisdom of modern journalism: turn on #JavaScript and #cookies or be exiled to the dark ages of the Internet. 🌐🍪 Apparently, we missed out on the mind-blowing experience of #sycophancy by not clicking "allow" fast enough. 🙄✨
https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/ #modernjournalism #Internetwisdom #HackerNews #ngated -
#sycophancy and #Boygroups are the norm in the #tech industry, and with that, you get a lot of dancing around the lillies, shoulder rubbing, ego messaging, pissing contests, humble bragging and low key demoralization disguised as "intellectual discourse".
This is what defines the cult like environments found in #siliconvalley and is the type of nepotistic grouping that ultimately leads to corruption.
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@w7voa Fuck #Meidas for not sticking it out in the Fediverse while still slumming it in the muskpool, but they covered the trump "press conference" point by point and it was just... an endless stream of insanity, by a fucking "president-elect" no less!
I worked in a closed ward of an insane asylum during my student years (yeah yeah, I did have *keys*...) and none of the inmates presented a fraction of a billionth of danger this lunatic megalomaniac presents to the world.
Fuck every American who could've voted against this insanity and didn't.
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☝️ Go and read, that is, unless you deliberately want to remain "blissfully unaware".
「In November 2020 The New York Times reported that a number of companies, including Nike, Coca-Cola, Apple, Adidas, Calvin Klein, Campbell Soup Company, Costco, H&M, Patagonia, Tommy Hilfiger and others, lobbied Congress to water down the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was aimed at barring US companies from relying on the forced labour of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang region. The companies argued that the ban was too broad and would disrupt the global supply chain.
In September 2019, US billionaire Michael Bloomberg told Firing Line‘s Margaret Hoover that Xi Jinping “is not a dictator” and that he has to “satisfy his constituents”. He also argued that Chinese Communist officials “listen to the public”. Bloomberg’s media company has been criticized in the past for self-censoring in order not to upset the Chinese government.」
「The Origins of the United Front
The CCP was founded in July 1921 in Shanghai. The main objectives of the party were the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat and an alliance with... 」
The Chinese Government’s “United Front” and the Threat to Liberal Democracies
https://china-journal.org/2021/04/30/the-chinese-governments-united-front-and-the-threat-to-liberal-democracies/#:~:text=Tesla%20CEO%20Elon,in%20the%20US.%E2%80%9D#CCP #PRC #china #propaganda #UFWD #unitedfront #UnitedFrontWorkDepartment #EliteCapture #corporatism #globalism #appeasement #sycophancy #musk #elonmusk #tesla #bloomberg #apple #nike #cocacola #costco #adidas #calvinklein #campbell #H&M #patagonia #tommyhilfiger
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@IanMoore3000 😂 Love that #shill word, tis not often used these days, so I must use it more...apparently it may have originated c. 1900 from #Shillaber, meaning carnival #Huckster or similar and I am a regular user of the #H word esp when requiring synonyms for the #Trump person who I am hoping is a dying species, despite numerous progeny--they too suffer from the #GOP #Republican #Defunding of #Education and staunch support of #Sycophancy. 😍
