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		idiotsecant 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psycho... The problem is that all the frontier models tend to be more sycophantic when confronted with emotional support issues.
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agnosticmantis 4 days ago [–]

I believe sycophancy is a side effect of RLHF and whatever reward function it explicitly and implicitly optimizes.

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