sycophancy
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AI’s sycophancy reinforces human confirmation bias, but users can employ tactics to counteract this tendency.
But he cautions that “healthcare can’t tolerate significant errors. We have to minimize the errors, the hallucinations, the confabulations, the BS and the sycophancy” that AI technology commonly displays.
From Los Angeles Times
The phenomenon is called sycophancy: Models effectively tell users what they want to hear.
From Salon
In the spring, OpenAI declared a “code orange” around the sycophancy crisis and devoted more resources to understanding and addressing the problem.
“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
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