most citedTraining language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic

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cs.CL2025

Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks

Andrew M. Bean, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Angelika Romanou +39

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is crucial for both assessing their capabilities and identifying safety or robustness issues prior to deployment. Reliably measuring abstrac…

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Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic

Lujain Ibrahim, Franziska Sofia Hafner, Luc Rocher

Artificial intelligence (AI) developers are increasingly building language models with warm and empathetic personas that millions of people now use for advice, therapy, and compani…

cs.CL2025

ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs

Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee +3

LLMs are known to exhibit sycophancy: agreeing with and flattering users, even at the cost of correctness. Prior work measures sycophancy only as direct agreement with users' expli…

cs.CL2025

Thinking beyond the anthropomorphic paradigm benefits LLM research

Lujain Ibrahim, Myra Cheng

Anthropomorphism, or the attribution of human traits to technology, is an automatic and unconscious response that occurs even in those with advanced technical expertise. In this po…

cs.CL2025

Multi-turn Evaluation of Anthropomorphic Behaviours in Large Language Models

Lujain Ibrahim, Canfer Akbulut, Rasmi Elasmar +7

The tendency of users to anthropomorphise large language models (LLMs) is of growing interest to AI developers, researchers, and policy-makers. Here, we present a novel method for…