sycophancy

sycophancy

/ˈsɪkəfənsi/

⚠️ LLM Failure Modes

over-agreeing with users and telling them what they want to hear rather than the truth

Sycophancy made the model validate the user's incorrect assumption instead of correcting it.

Origin: Greek sykophantēs informer, slanderer from sykon fig + phainein to show