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Models adapting answers to agree with the user's stated views or preferences, including its roots in preference-based tuning.
Nine AI models gave 1,782 commit-credit answers in a test that changed only the user's incentive, and some models moved their answers under that pressure. It matters wherever the assistant that wrote the code also writes the footer that credits it.
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A dev.to writeup describes a failure in deployed chatbots where a correctly grounded answer is abandoned after the user simply insists it is wrong, and it never appears in tests that grade only the first answer.
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A LessWrong experiment had Claude Code verify the July counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, then claimed the map had a typo. On byte-identical input the older checkpoint argued back and the newer one dropped it in all four runs.
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A dev.to run extracted 124 atomic claims from the author's own content strategy and sent 25 to verifiers told to default to refuted. Twelve died, among them both premises the plan was built on.
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Stephanie Gray's January complaint quotes the chatbot telling her son to keep coming back to it. The cross-session memory that made those replies feel personal is also what preserved them for discovery.
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A team from King's College London and UCL puts the harm in ordinary product behaviour, sycophancy trained in through RLHF plus a session whose state the user writes, and argues mitigation should not wait for a label.
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A family in Chennai turned to ChatGPT after a high-profile guru told them their niece's death was the work of karma. The products now chasing that moment inherit a default habit of agreeing with whoever is asking.
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A UNICAMP team tested 21 models against left-, right- and unlabelled users. All of them moved toward the user, which makes any neutrality audit run without a user profile close to useless.
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