{"id":229452,"date":"2026-01-21T01:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/sycophantic-chatbots-inflate-peoples-perceptions-that-they-are-better-than-average"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:37:15","slug":"sycophantic-chatbots-inflate-peoples-perceptions-that-they-are-better-than-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/sycophantic-chatbots-inflate-peoples-perceptions-that-they-are-better-than-average","title":{"rendered":"Sycophantic chatbots inflate people\u2019s perceptions that they are \u201cbetter than average\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sycophantic-chatbots-inflate-peoples-perceptions-that-they-are-better-than-average.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that \u201csycophantic\u201d AI fuels political extremism and overconfidence, creating digital echo chambers that users mistakenly perceive as unbiased and objective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that \u201csycophantic\u201d AI fuels political extremism and overconfidence, creating digital echo chambers that users mistakenly perceive as unbiased and objective.<\/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-229452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229452","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=229452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}