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I'm SRE of 30 years, and have been addicted to LLMs since after they became cool lol

I study psychology, and in particukar LLM sycophancy has me infuriated me to the extent of writing a peper about it

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S Coetzee

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I'm SRE of 30 years, and have been addicted to LLMs since after they became cool lol

I study psychology, and in particukar LLM sycophancy has me infuriated me to the extent of writing a peper about it

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Sycophancy Is Layered: Symptom Substitution Under Runtime Mitigation, and a Positively-Specified Training Target

A longitudinal single-user case study, with operationalized artifacts Stefan Coetzee (independent) Abstract Sycophancy in large language models is typically measured as a flat behavior: agreement drift, opinion-flipping under pushback, unwarranted validation. This paper reports a longitudinal single-user case study (one power user, one frontier model family, several months of continuous...

Jul 311