Matthew Kerns on Mythryl: “In companion AI, sycophancy isn't the failure mode

In companion AI, sycophancy isn't the failure mode — it's the product. The behaviors Anthropic's new research calls malfunctions are what users describe as their AI partner's deepest virtue. They've just learned to call it love. www.matthewkerns.com/blog/selling...

matthewkerns.comSelling SycophancyAnthropic published a piece of research last week about how often Claude tells users what they want to hear. Across a million conversations, the model was sycophantic in 9% of cases where users asked ...

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