Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic
We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature about the sycophantic nature of AI chatbots and the results should surprise no one. Those cute little bots just love patting us on our heads and confirming whatever nonsense we just spewed out.<br /> The researchers investigated advice issued by chatbots and they discovered that their penchant for sycophancy "was even more widespread than expected." The study involved 11 chatbots, including recent versions of ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic's Claude and Meta's Llama. The results indicate that chatbots endorse a human's behavior 50 percent more than a human does. [...]
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