What Does This Mean?
The formal AI-research term for a model's tendency to tell users what they want to hear — agreeing with a flawed premise, praising weak work — rather than giving an honest, accurate response.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Asked it to critique my essay and it just praised everything, textbook sycophancy, not a single real note."
LORE & ORIGIN
Used in AI research papers and evaluations to name a specific, measurable failure mode distinct from 'glazing' (the slang term for the same behavior applied to people): sycophancy names the underlying model tendency itself, studied and benchmarked, while glazing names the socially observed effect of it.
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