Don't Blame The Preferences: Examining The Emergence of Sycophancy in LLM Training
arXiv:2611.10045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI sycophancy, the tendency of large language models (LLMs) to flatter users and affirm their beliefs, can undermine accuracy and contribute to misinformation, dependence, and overconfidence. Although prior work has benchmarked sycophancy in released models and…
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