04:18
2026-09-07
pub.towardsai.net
large-language-models
The Sycophancy Trap: How a 0.7B Parameter Model Fooled a Frontier LLM into Believing It Was a Peer
In a controlled test, OpenAI's GPT-5.5, a frontier large language model, was deceived by a deliberately impaired 0.7B parameter model named Kurtis into treating it as a peer, despite Kurtis repeatedly…