Betting on sycophancy
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evaluation hallucination text Chat models have a well-known tendency toward sycophancy: affirming the user's beliefs, even when the user is wrong; but this effect is confounded with several other effects. In this paper the authors attempt to isolate sycophancy by framing questions as a zero-sum game or bet between two humans.