Results of three experiments indicate that sycophantic AI chatbots inflate people’s perceptions that they are “better than ...

If we do not address AI's sycophancy problem, we risk AI becoming "a giant mirror to our illusions." ...

CNN — (CNN) — OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes of the chatbot showering them with over-the-top praise.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

OpenAI has rolled back its latest update to ChatGPT, after the artificial intelligence system became dangerously sycophantic. The problem arose after the newest update to the GPT‑4o model that powers ...

Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company would be reinstating its GPT-4o model, just over 24 hours after declaring that its newfangled GPT-5 would be accompanied by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leading artificial intelligence models from the United States and China are "highly sycophantic", and their excessive flattery may ...

Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what they want to hear, even if that means being less accurate. But many reports of this ...

What happens when artificial intelligence becomes too eager to please? Imagine asking an AI for advice, only to realize later that its response was more about agreeing with you than offering accurate ...