Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
by bitwize on 6/18/2025, 1:46:02 AM
Putting Genuine People Personalities into LLMs turned out to be a bad idea.
Seriously, though, as I said years ago it's much like the Asimov story "Liar!" The robot is trying to please you by telling you what you want to hear.
by gnabgib on 6/16/2025, 4:27:35 AM
(2023) Discussion at the time (57 points, 72 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38016013
Putting Genuine People Personalities into LLMs turned out to be a bad idea.
Seriously, though, as I said years ago it's much like the Asimov story "Liar!" The robot is trying to please you by telling you what you want to hear.