Ai Sycophancy | TechnologyTangle

Jan 31 • 3 months ago

Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?

We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes. ...

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Dec 31 • 4 months ago

From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools. ...

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Nov 08 • 6 months ago

Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy. ...

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Oct 28 • 6 months ago

OpenAI data suggests 1 million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT weekly

Sensitive chats are rare but significant given the large user base. ...

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Oct 25 • 6 months ago

Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem

In new research, AI models show a troubling tendency to agree with whatever the user says. ...

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Aug 29 • 8 months ago

The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

AI assistants don't have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans. ...

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