#sycophancy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sycophancy, aggregated by home.social.
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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/ -
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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/20/psypost-sycophantic-chatbots-inflate-peoples-perceptions-that-they-are-better-than-average/ -
OpenAI Adds 'Warmth' and 'Enthusiasm' Sliders to ChatGPT, Delays Adult Mode to 2026
#AI #OpenAI #ChatCGPT #Sycophancy #AISycophancy #AIPersonalization