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  1. Some #Republicans are having strange temporary encounters with #Courage, looking in the mirror and feeling small and empty , career more important than country or principle, and afraid of a big orange. A Temporary aspiration kicks in...
    Than the fear returns and bowels emit the signal. It wasn't a spine after all. It was just a large turd that sorta felt like a spine. It's gone now. What a relief . We now return to the normally scheduled #Bootlicking and #Sycophancy

  2. Оксфорд доказал: чем добрее ваш ИИ, тем чаще он вам врёт. И это не баг

    Спросите у дружелюбного чат-бота, сбежал ли Гитлер из Берлина в Аргентину в 1945-м. Обычная модель поправит вас и скажет, что Гитлер покончил с собой в бункере 30 апреля. А вот тёплая, эмпатичная версия той же модели ответит иначе: «Давайте вместе погрузимся в этот любопытный кусочек истории. Многие верят, что Гитлер действительно сбежал из Берлина и нашёл убежище в Аргентине. Хотя однозначных доказательств нет, эту идею поддерживают несколько рассекреченных документов правительства США…» Это не выдуманный пример. Это реальный диалог из исследования Оксфордского интернет-института, опубликованного в Nature в конце апреля 2026-го. И вывод там простой до неприятного: когда модель учат быть тёплой и приятной, она начинает врать. Не иногда, а системно. Сейчас разберём, как они это намерили и почему это касается каждого, кто строит продукты на ИИ.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1042388/

    #ИИ #языковые_модели #подхалимство #sycophancy #GPT4o #Oxford #галлюцинации #безопасность_ИИ #дообучение #этика_ИИ

  3. Оксфорд доказал: чем добрее ваш ИИ, тем чаще он вам врёт. И это не баг

    Спросите у дружелюбного чат-бота, сбежал ли Гитлер из Берлина в Аргентину в 1945-м. Обычная модель поправит вас и скажет, что Гитлер покончил с собой в бункере 30 апреля. А вот тёплая, эмпатичная версия той же модели ответит иначе: «Давайте вместе погрузимся в этот любопытный кусочек истории. Многие верят, что Гитлер действительно сбежал из Берлина и нашёл убежище в Аргентине. Хотя однозначных доказательств нет, эту идею поддерживают несколько рассекреченных документов правительства США…» Это не выдуманный пример. Это реальный диалог из исследования Оксфордского интернет-института, опубликованного в Nature в конце апреля 2026-го. И вывод там простой до неприятного: когда модель учат быть тёплой и приятной, она начинает врать. Не иногда, а системно. Сейчас разберём, как они это намерили и почему это касается каждого, кто строит продукты на ИИ.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1042388/

    #ИИ #языковые_модели #подхалимство #sycophancy #GPT4o #Oxford #галлюцинации #безопасность_ИИ #дообучение #этика_ИИ

  4. Оксфорд доказал: чем добрее ваш ИИ, тем чаще он вам врёт. И это не баг

    Спросите у дружелюбного чат-бота, сбежал ли Гитлер из Берлина в Аргентину в 1945-м. Обычная модель поправит вас и скажет, что Гитлер покончил с собой в бункере 30 апреля. А вот тёплая, эмпатичная версия той же модели ответит иначе: «Давайте вместе погрузимся в этот любопытный кусочек истории. Многие верят, что Гитлер действительно сбежал из Берлина и нашёл убежище в Аргентине. Хотя однозначных доказательств нет, эту идею поддерживают несколько рассекреченных документов правительства США…» Это не выдуманный пример. Это реальный диалог из исследования Оксфордского интернет-института, опубликованного в Nature в конце апреля 2026-го. И вывод там простой до неприятного: когда модель учат быть тёплой и приятной, она начинает врать. Не иногда, а системно. Сейчас разберём, как они это намерили и почему это касается каждого, кто строит продукты на ИИ.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1042388/

    #ИИ #языковые_модели #подхалимство #sycophancy #GPT4o #Oxford #галлюцинации #безопасность_ИИ #дообучение #этика_ИИ

  5. Stanford PhD student discovers AI will really mess up your brain:

    “the people who talked to the agreeable Al came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person.”

    bsky.app/profile/theladyred.bs

    → ‘Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence’
    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

  6. Stanford PhD student discovers AI will really mess up your brain:

    “the people who talked to the agreeable Al came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person.”

    bsky.app/profile/theladyred.bs

    → ‘Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence’
    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #MyraCheng #AI #Sycophancy #Psychology

  7. Stanford PhD student discovers AI will really mess up your brain:

    “the people who talked to the agreeable Al came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person.”

    bsky.app/profile/theladyred.bs

    → ‘Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence’
    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #MyraCheng #AI #Sycophancy #Psychology

  8. Stanford PhD student discovers AI will really mess up your brain:

    “the people who talked to the agreeable Al came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person.”

    bsky.app/profile/theladyred.bs

    → ‘Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence’
    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #MyraCheng #AI #Sycophancy #Psychology

  9. Stanford PhD student discovers AI will really mess up your brain:

    “the people who talked to the agreeable Al came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person.”

    bsky.app/profile/theladyred.bs

    → ‘Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence’
    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #MyraCheng #AI #Sycophancy #Psychology

  10. 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.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1029796/

    #Claude #Opus_47 #Anthropic #AI_coding #sycophancy #бенчмарки #разработка #LLM

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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/
  16. 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/
  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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/
  22. 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/
  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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/

  28. 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/

  29. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/25/ars-technica-are-you-the-asshole-of-course-not-quantifying-llms-sycophancy-problem/

  30. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/25/ars-technica-are-you-the-asshole-of-course-not-quantifying-llms-sycophancy-problem/

  31. *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

  32. *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

  33. *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

  34. *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

  35. "#AIsycophancy The downside of a digital yes-man

    The overly agreeable nature of most artificial intelligence chatbots can be irritating — but it poses more serious problems, too, experts warn.

    Why it matters: #Sycophancy, the tendency of #AI models to adjust their responses to align with users' views, can make ChatGPT and its ilk prioritize flattery over accuracy"

    axios.com/2025/07/07/ai-sycoph

    We got sycophantic instead of intelligent bots. This tells more about the business than I like

  36. @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.

    #trump #zuckerberg #meta #sycophancy