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
Just as important, I’m using AI to tame my human susceptibility to praise, so that when I do get a sycophantic response to my prompts, I take it with a hearty grain of salt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
A constant stream of diners comes to their table to shake Werner’s and Frederick’s hands and ask Frederick’s mother in low sycophantic voices about her husband’s latest advancement.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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