@trochee@dair-community.social
Post #1846526
2026-04-19 14:45 UTC
This study's results suggest that LLM sycophancy amplifies publication bias (the "file drawer" problem)
The LLMs didn't like to tell the user that their hypothesis was not confirmed by the data
H/t @bibliolater
https://social.vivaldi.net/@bibliolater/116252085690032777
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@trochee@dair-community.social 2026-04-19 23:02
@KimSJ I'm anthropomorphizing, yes. It's a useful tool to talk about interactions among complex systems I am not attributing actual sentience to the LLMs. I did not say "LLM training data patterns are biased in favor of the appearance of agreement with the user, even when the user has what would be externally deemed a 'bad idea'" instead, I chose a shorthand that uses a concept we already have for describing human-to-human communication "LLMs have a sycophancy problem" @bibliolater