sycophancy
/ˈsɪkəfənsi/
over-agreeing with users and telling them what they want to hear rather than the truth
sycophancy in a sentence
“Sycophancy made the model validate the user's incorrect assumption instead of correcting it.”
Origin of sycophancy
Greek sykophantēs informer, slanderer from sykon fig + phainein to show
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