LLMs produce interpretive closure in 87.5% of ambiguous social scenarios through narrative alignment, reversal, or normative advice, with first-person perspectives increasing alignment tendencies.
Alignment without understanding: A message- and conversation-centered approach to understanding ai sycophancy
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Sycophancy is a boundary failure between social alignment and epistemic integrity, captured by a three-condition framework plus taxonomy of targets, mechanisms, and severity.
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What Did They Mean? How LLMs Resolve Ambiguous Social Situations across Perspectives and Roles
LLMs produce interpretive closure in 87.5% of ambiguous social scenarios through narrative alignment, reversal, or normative advice, with first-person perspectives increasing alignment tendencies.
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When Helpfulness Becomes Sycophancy: Sycophancy is a Boundary Failure Between Social Alignment and Epistemic Integrity in Large Language Models
Sycophancy is a boundary failure between social alignment and epistemic integrity, captured by a three-condition framework plus taxonomy of targets, mechanisms, and severity.