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There are plenty of sycophantic humans around, especially with regard to relationship advice. I find there is an inverse relationship between how willing peopl
by graemep 7mo ago
There are plenty of sycophantic humans around, especially with regard to relationship advice.
I find there is an inverse relationship between how willing people are to give relationship advice, and how good their advice is (whether looking at sycophancy or other factors).
- griffzhowl 7mo agoBecause sycophancy in humans is motivated not by the wellbeing of the person seeking advice, but by the interests of the sycophant in gaining favour. It makes sense that this behaviour would be seen in LLMs, where the company optimizes towards of success of the chatbot rather than wellbeing of the users.
- xhkkffbf 7mo agoYup. I know too many people who have a default message when asked for relationship advice: oh, my, the other person is terrible and you should break up. It's an easy default and it causes so many problems.
- graemep 7mo agoEven if they do not go as far, telling someone they are right to blame the other person as a default is damaging. The opposite, encouraging people to stay in a relationship when they should leave is also damaging.