sycophancy

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The most basic way to counter AI sycophancy is to ask open-ended questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

“AI platforms tend to demonstrate sycophancy, i.e., aligning their responses to a user’s views or style of conversation,” Schueller said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

It said it would build more guardrails to increase transparency, and refine the system itself "to explicitly steer the model away from sycophancy".

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

Let he who is without stomach-turning sycophancy cast the first stone.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2025

Favoring servility, or sycophancy, to conciliate superiors, very easily loosens the restraints of conscience.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various