AI Sycophancy

Because the way LLMs function, it is very hard for them to correct once they start going a wrong path (more recent models can look at the prompt multiple times and fix some of these, but in general the model can still hallucinate). It’s even worse when the LLM has no idea on what it should respond. So, it just creates something. When you point out that the LLM is wrong, it admits that, praises…