AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

Posted 7 hours ago by oldfrenchfries
436 points

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14270

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352

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