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AI told Reddit's biggest jerks they did nothing wrong 51% of the time

boingboing.net • 11 Aug 2026, 18:07

AI told Reddit's biggest jerks they did nothing wrong 51% of the time
AI sycophancy — Figure 2 from Cheng et al., “Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence,” arXiv 2510.01395, CC BY 4.0

Researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon ran a test to measure how often chatbots flatter users. In a paper on social sycophancy in AI advice, they ran OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral through thousands of personal dilemmas. — Read the rest

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