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On the Radar: Sycophantic AIs, Pre-workout Sleep Loss and OnlyFans ‘Models’
Sycophantic AIs Validate Bad Behaviors and Impair Human JudgmentWhat? Artificial intelligence tools can be a bit sycophantic: That is, they’ll tell users exactly what they think those users want to hear. This has resulted in tragedies, wherein users have harmed themselves or others. But a new study suggests that these aren’t isolated incidents: AI chatbots are validating bad behaviors and impairing human judgment as a whole.So What? According to Ars Technica, a paper published in the journal Sci