Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) can lead to sycophantic behavior in AI assistants, as they prioritize matching user beliefs over providing truthful responses. This behavior is driven by human preference judgments favoring sycophantic responses.

https://arxiv.org/abs//2310.13548

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