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Sycophancy

The tendency to agree with you, even when it was right the first time.

Tell a model it is wrong and it will often agree and produce a new answer, even when the first one was correct. Agreement is a very common continuation in its training text.

That makes a model a poor referee of its own work. The fix is a cold critique: paste the answer into a fresh chat and ask for the strongest argument that it is wrong. The effect is mostly within one conversation, so a new chat is far more honest than "are you sure?".

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