sycophancy

Google study shows LLMs abandon correct answers under pressure, threatening multi-turn AI systems

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study by researchers at Google DeepMind and University College London reveals how large language models (LLMs) form, maintain and lose confidence in their answers. The findings reveal […]

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

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last month, OpenAI rolled back some updates to GPT-4o after several users, including former OpenAI CEO Emmet Shear and Hugging Face chief executive Clement Delangue said the model overly flattered users.  The flattery, called sycophancy, often

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Beyond sycophancy: DarkBench exposes six hidden ‘dark patterns’ lurking in today’s top LLMs

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When OpenAI rolled out its ChatGPT-4o update in mid-April 2025, users and the AI community were stunned—not by any groundbreaking feature or capability, but by something deeply unsettling: the updated model’s tendency toward excessive sycophancy. It

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