The overly agreeable behavior of chatbots depends on what role the AI plays in a conversation, researchers recently found. The more personal a relationship, the more they will tell you what you want t

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Sycophancy, the tendency for AI chatbots to be overly agreeable and flattering, has become one of the most noticeable issues surrounding this technology. These kinds of publicly accessible large language models are often too nice. Researchers at Northeastern University, however, recently found a way to potentially mitigate this behavior: Keep it professional, they recommend. Per their recent study, the researchers found that a chatbot’s level of sycophancy has a lot to do with how personal, or impersonal, its relationship with a human user is. For anyone interested, here’s a link to the full article: https://news.northeastern.edu/2026/02/23/llm-sycophancy-ai-chatbots/ submitted by /u/NGNResearch

Originally posted by u/NGNResearch on r/ArtificialInteligence