U.S. President Donald Trump is once again posting his text message to his Truth Social account, displaying the sycophantic ...

Claude has added a research tool that can do deep dives on the web, matching features available in Gemini and ChatGPT. I ...

AI chatbots are going overboard with flattery. Maybe they’ve learned from Trump’s team.

A growing number of reports link OpenAI's ChatGPT to severe mental health crises, including cases of psychosis and delusion ...

Before users get too comfortable OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic are working to rein in a growing problem with their chatbots: excessive flattery. The models are increasingly prone to giving ...

Experts warn that the agreeable nature of chatbots can lead them to offering answers that reinforce some of their human users ...

A psychiatrist recently pretended to be a troubled teen and asked chatbots for help. They dispensed worrying advice.

The company also prevents sycophantic behaviour before launch by changing how they collect feedback from the thousands of human data annotators used to train AI models. ...

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The new benchmark, called Elephant, makes it easier to spot when AI models are being overly sycophantic—but there’s no ...

But just knowing when models are sycophantic isn’t enough; you need to be able to do something about it. And that’s trickier. Read the full story. —Rhiannon Williams.

Since the start of his second term in office, US president Donald Trump has cultivated a political atmosphere that discourages freedom of thought. He also actively villainises and punishes any ...