A Sycophantic Model Can't Be AGI

This is a piece I wrote for The Byte, the AI Collective 's Tuesday newsletter . You can read it here . There is no generally accepted definition of AGI, but most of us can agree that, in broad strokes, AGI is a label for any LLM that is smarter than most (or all) humans in most (or all) fields. Sycophancy, by contrast, is the tendency of models to agree with, flatter, or defer to users even when…