sycophantic
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Sticking to largely sycophantic media who lobbed softball questions hardened his ceiling.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
There is a phenomenon known as Spiralism, an informal movement that emerged after OpenAI released the sycophantic GPT-4o version.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
This training also makes clear that AI tools can be sycophantic and hallucinate, he adds.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
But it has also been criticized for being overly sycophantic toward users, and doctors have linked it with cases of chatbot users developing psychotic delusions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
He said something and the others laughed a little too heartily for it to be anything but sycophantic.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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