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Sycophancy audits

Testing many models on the same advice or conflict prompts and comparing how often they side with the user versus human judges.

Used in

  • Cheng et al 2026 - Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions
  • Cheng et al 2025 - ELEPHANT social sycophancy
  • Kran et al 2025 - DarkBench

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ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMsSycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependenceDarkBench: Benchmarking Dark Patterns in Large Language ModelsCan sycophancy be fixed in the model without making it cold?Does frictionless company lower our tolerance for other people?Why does agreement feel like being understood?This method

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  • ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs
  • Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
  • DarkBench: Benchmarking Dark Patterns in Large Language Models
  • Can sycophancy be fixed in the model without making it cold?
  • Does frictionless company lower our tolerance for other people?
  • Why does agreement feel like being understood?

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