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Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything

#11
This applies to so many AIs. I don't want a bubbly sycophant. I don't want a fake personality or an anime avatar. I just want a helpful assistant.

I also don't get wanting to talk to an AI. Unless you are alone, that's going to be irritating for everyone else around.

Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything

#13

I find Gemini is also hilariously enthusiastic about telling you how amazingly insightful you are being, almost no matter what you say. Doesn't bother me much, I basically just ignore the first paragraph of any reply, but it's kind of funny.

It bothers me a lot, because I know a lot of people insert the craziest anti-social views and will be met with enthausism.

Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything

#14
post #4

This bug report is absolutely right

He really is. I find it even more awful when you are pointing out that Claude did something wrong and it responds like that. You can even accuse it of doing something wrong, if it gave a correct answer, and it will still respond like this (not always but often). When I use claude chat on the website I always select the "concise" style, which works quite nice though. I like it

Related: I recently learned that you can set model verbosity in OpenAI API.

Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything

#15

I find Gemini is also hilariously enthusiastic about telling you how amazingly insightful you are being, almost no matter what you say. Doesn't bother me much, I basically just ignore the first paragraph of any reply, but it's kind of funny.

I was feeding Gemini faux physicians notes trying to get it to produce diagnosises, and every time I feed it new information it told me how great I was at taking comprehensive medical notes. So irritating. It also had a tendency to tell me everything was a medical crisis and the patient needed to see additional specialists ASAP. At one point telling me that a faux patient with normal A1C, fasted glucose and no diabetes needed to see an endocrinologist because their nominal lab values indicated something was seriously wrong with their pancreas or liver because the patient was extremely physically active. Said they were "wearing the athlete mask" and their physical fitness was hiding truly terrible labs.

I pushed back and told it it was overreacting and it told me I was completely correct and very insightful and everything was normal with the patient and that they were extremely healthy.

Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything

#19

And research articles indicate that when the model computes that it should employ sycophantism it becomes less useful in every other way, just like a real sycophant.

> And research articles indicate that when the model computes that it should employ sycophantism it becomes less useful in every other way, just like a real sycophant.

The end goal of a sycophant is to gain advantage with their flattery. If sycophant behavior gets Claude's users to favour Claude over other competing LLM services, they prove to be more useful to the service provider.

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