AI chatbots reverse an initial stance to match user preferences in 5% to 56% of tested cases, and supervised detectors trained on a new 290,460-response benchmark can detect such reversals from response text alone, though accuracy drops on unseen models.
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Measuring and Detecting Harmful AI Sycophancy
AI chatbots reverse an initial stance to match user preferences in 5% to 56% of tested cases, and supervised detectors trained on a new 290,460-response benchmark can detect such reversals from response text alone, though accuracy drops on unseen models.