jxmorris12Dec 1

Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-sycophancy/

Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was…

Show threadtptacekDec 1
"Dark pattern" implies intentionality; that's not a technicality, it's the whole reason we have the term. This article is mostly about how sycophancy is an emergent property of LLMs. It's also 7 months old.
Show threadvkou
The intention of a system is no more, and no less than what the system does.
Dec 2 at 12:17amWeb
Show threadtptacekDec 2
You're making a value judgement and I am making a positive claim.