State-of-the-art AI models tend to flatter users, and that praise makes people more convinced that they're right and less willing to resolve conflicts, recent research suggests.

These models, in other words, potentially promote social and psychological harm.

Computer scientists from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University have evaluated 11 current machine learning models and found that all of them tend to tell people what they want to hear.

The authors – Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, and Dan Jurafsky – describe their findings in a preprint paper titled, "Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence."

"Across 11 state-of-the-art AI models, we find that models are highly sycophantic: they affirm users’ actions 50 percent m

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