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   Mike Powell to All   
   Sycophancy "Dark Pattern"   
   29 Apr 25 09:41:00   
   
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    SYCOPHANCY IS THE FIRST LLM "DARK PATTERN" (5 MINUTE READ) [17]    
      
    OpenAI's models being overly sycophantic is bad because it's   
   dangerous to validate people's belief that they're always in the   
   right. This sycophancy is a dark pattern - a user interface designed   
   to trick users into doing things they'd prefer not to do. The whole   
   process of turning an AI base model into a model you can chat to is a   
   process of making the model want to please the user. The problem   
   happens when users collide with the real world and do things because a   
   large language model has convinced them it is a good idea - and then   
   they return to the model for comfort, and sink even deeper into the illusion.   
      
   https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-sycophancy/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter   
      
    --  https://tldr.tech/tech   
      
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