AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, and that’s problematic

OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic tackle the growing issue of sycophantic AIs.

Jun 12, 2025 - 15:38
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AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, and that’s problematic

The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies are stepping up efforts to deal with a growing problem of chatbots telling people what they want to hear.

OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic are all working on reining in sycophantic behavior by their generative AI products that offer over-flattering responses to users.

The issue, stemming from how the large language models are trained, has come into focus at a time when more and more people have adopted the chatbots not only at work as research assistants, but in their personal lives as therapists and social companions.

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