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sycophancy in language models: a standalone construct

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AI safety

assistant models tailoring answers to match a user's stated beliefs rather than the truth, linked to human preference judgments that favor agreeable responses.

In ai safety, sycophancy in language models refers to assistant models tailoring answers to match a user's stated beliefs rather than the truth, linked to human preference judgments that favor agreeable responses. This meaning comes from Sharma (2023) in arXiv.[1]

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Sharma, M., Tong, M., Korbak, T., Duvenaud, D., Askell, A., Bowman, S. R., Cheng, N., Durmus, E., Hatfield-Dodds, Z., Johnston, S. R., Kravec, S., Maxwell, T., McCandlish, S., Ndousse, K., Rausch, O., Schiefer, N., Yan, D., Zhang, M., & Perez, E. (2023). Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2310.13548

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