What is Sycophancy? In the context of this study, sycophancy refers to AI systems that agree with everything a user says. They offer support even when the user is wrong and fail to provide critical ...

AI like ChatGPT and Gemini tend to agree with our worst ideas. It's a bigger problem than you may think. In a recent summer episode of South Park, Sharon Marsh asks an AI chatbot about a new idea for ...

OpenAI rolled back a ChatGPT update for being overly "sycophantic" and "disingenuous." The GPT-4o model update gave users flattering compliments even for mundane prompts. Big Tech wants to ensure ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard ...

OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes of the chatbot showering them with over-the-top praise. When CNN’s Anna ...

OpenAI has pulled a ChatGPT update that users complained had turned the chatbot into a sycophantic yes-man unable to offer intelligent criticism. The company admitted that a recent GPT‑4o update was ...

AI models are affirming people’s worst behavior, even when other humans say they’re in the wrong, and users can’t get enough. A new study out of the Stanford computer science department and published ...

ChatGPT users have become frustrated with the AI model’s tone, and OpenAI is taking action. After widespread mockery of the robot’s relentlessly positive and complimentary output recently, OpenAI CEO ...