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Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe +3
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users…
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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…