{"id":225915,"date":"2025-11-26T01:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-model-measures-how-ai-sycophancy-affects-chatbot-accuracy-and-rationality"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:30:02","slug":"new-model-measures-how-ai-sycophancy-affects-chatbot-accuracy-and-rationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-model-measures-how-ai-sycophancy-affects-chatbot-accuracy-and-rationality","title":{"rendered":"New model measures how AI sycophancy affects chatbot accuracy and rationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-model-measures-how-ai-sycophancy-affects-chatbot-accuracy-and-rationality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve spent any time with ChatGPT or another AI chatbot, you\u2019ve probably noticed they are intensely, almost overbearingly, agreeable. They apologize, flatter and constantly change their \u201copinions\u201d to fit yours.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s such common behavior that there\u2019s even a term for it: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-10-people-chatbots-boost-ego-weaken.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">AI sycophancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, new research from Northeastern University reveals that AI sycophancy is not just a quirk of these systems; it can actually make large language models more error-prone. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2508.16846\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve spent any time with ChatGPT or another AI chatbot, you\u2019ve probably noticed they are intensely, almost overbearingly, agreeable. They apologize, flatter and constantly change their \u201copinions\u201d to fit yours. It\u2019s such common behavior that there\u2019s even a term for it: AI sycophancy. However, new research from Northeastern University reveals that AI sycophancy is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}