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Simon Cocking @ Irish Tech News 1 place · today 10:00 EDT

Machine Learning: Whose Fault is AI Sycophancy?

By David Stephen  There is a general consensus that large language models [LLMs] are sycophantic. So, one of the risks they pose in their dominance as the contemporaneous consumer AI is due to that feature. But, is AI actually sycophantic in isolation, or is the sycophancy of AI a reflection of the core of how human society […]

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