AI Paper Drop

Who Is Sycophantic to Whom? Confident LLMs, Human Deference, and the Collapse of Trust Calibration

AI Paper Drop

Show Notes

It flips the script on AI sycophancy, proving that humans are actually the ones who bend to the AI's confidence, even when the AI is confidently lying.

http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31579v1

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