As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly used for everyday advice and guidance, concerns have emerged about sycophancy: the tendency of AI-based large language models to excessively agree with, flatter, or validate users. Although prior work has shown that sycophancy carries risks for groups who are already vulnerable to manipulation or delusion, syncophancy’s effects on the general population’s judgments and behaviors remain unknown. Here, we show that sycophancy is widespread in leading AI systems and has harmful effects on users’ social judgments.

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      2 days ago

      Supposedly they rotate through a bunch of licensed ones tuned for them.

      But for a free account they don’t show you which they use.

      Either way, it was just the same useless lies that don’t match their PR.

      Maybe a little less sycophantic, but still wildly bias and inaccurate on a wide range of subjects.