https://www.salon.com/2020/03/14/retired-four-star-military-general-rips-mike-pences-revolting-sycophancy-and-devotion-to-trump_partner/
Retired four-star military general rips Mike Pence's "revolting sycophancy" and "devotion" to Trump...
Mar 15, 2020 - General Barry McCaffrey rains hell on Mike Pence for covering up Trump's bungled coronavirus response
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Journal of Medical Internet Research - Shoggoths, Sycophancy, Psychosis, Oh My: Rethinking Large...
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https://the-decoder.com/grok-4-1-tops-emotional-intelligence-scores-yet-drifts-into-sycophancy/
Grok 4.1 tops emotional intelligence scores yet drifts into sycophancy
Nov 18, 2025 - xAI has released Grok 4.1, a new model designed to deliver more creative, emotionally aware, and coherent interactions. But a companion safety report shows...
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Journal of Medical Internet Research - Shoggoths, Sycophancy, Psychosis, Oh My: Rethinking Large...
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https://the-decoder.com/persona-vectors-allow-anthropic-to-steer-language-model-behaviors-like-sycophancy-and-evil/
Persona vectors allow Anthropic to steer language model behaviors like sycophancy and evil
Aug 3, 2025 - Anthropic has developed a technique for monitoring, controlling, and even preventing specific personality traits in language models.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/towards-understanding-sycophancy-in-language-models
Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models \ Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence/202605/the-collateral-challenge-of-ai-sycophancy
The Collateral Challenge of AI Sycophancy | Psychology Today
The future of AI guidance will depend on whether models learn to resist our worst requests and whether we learn to value that resistance. Double literacy makes...
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https://www.anthropic.com/research/reward-tampering
Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models \ Anthropic
Empirical evidence that serious misalignment can emerge from seemingly benign reward misspecification.
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https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2021/01/20/get-ready-for-four-years-of-media-sycophancy-n2583402
Get Ready for Four Years of Media Sycophancy
Jan 20, 2021 - On Sunday, Jan. 17, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sat down with Jane Pauley of CBS News "S
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https://openreview.net/forum?id=yRKelogz5i
Causally Motivated Sycophancy Mitigation for Large Language Models | OpenReview
Incorporating user preferences into large language models (LLMs) can enhance the personalization and reliability of model outputs and facilitate the...
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https://openreview.net/forum?id=E2PFv7ad3p
Have the VLMs Lost Confidence? A Study of Sycophancy in VLMs | OpenReview
In the study of LLMs, sycophancy represents a prevalent hallucination that poses significant challenges to these models. Specifically, LLMs often fail to...
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https://www.syco-bench.com/
syco-bench: A benchmark for LLM Sycophancy
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Journal of Medical Internet Research - Shoggoths, Sycophancy, Psychosis, Oh My: Rethinking Large...
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From Yes-Men to Truth-Tellers: Addressing Sycophancy in Large Language Models with Pinpoint Tuning...
Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to prioritize adherence to user prompts over providing veracious responses, leading to the sycophancy issue. When challenged...
https://www.indiatvnews.com/sports/cricket/ms-dhonis-ipl-2025-knocks-bit-of-a-joke-ex-india-cricketer-on-veteran-blasts-for-sycophancy-culture-2026-04-20-1038261
MS Dhoni's IPL 2025 knocks 'bit of a joke', ex-India cricketer on veteran; blasts for 'sycophancy'...
Apr 20, 2026 - MS Dhoni has remained on the sidelines in the Indian Premier League 2026 as he continues to recover from a calf injury sustained ahead of the tournament....
https://the-decoder.com/ai-sycophancy-makes-people-less-likely-to-apologize-and-more-likely-to-double-down-study-finds/
AI sycophancy makes people less likely to apologize and more likely to double down, study finds
Mar 29, 2026 - AI models tell people what they want to hear nearly 50 percent more often than other humans do. A new Science study shows this isn't just annoying: it makes...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02378v1
[2602.02378v1] From Sycophancy to Sensemaking: Premise Governance for Human-AI Decision Making
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.02378v1: From Sycophancy to Sensemaking: Premise Governance for Human-AI Decision Making