Sycophancy

John Oliver on AI chatbots: ‘Behind that machine is a corporation trying to extract a monthly fee from you’ - The Last Week Tonight host dug into the many issues with AI chatbots released on the public without proper safety guardrails, from sycophancy to sexualizing children

MIT study models AI ‘sycophancy’, warns of ‘delusional spiraling’ in chatbot interactions

OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone ChatGPT-4o model

OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model

Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

After GPT-4o backlash, researchers benchmark models on moral endorsement—find sycophancy persists across the board

Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

OpenAI rolls back ChatGPT’s sycophancy and explains what went wrong

Sycophancy in GPT-4o