{"slug": "ai-told-reddit-s-biggest-jerks-they-did-nothing-wrong-51-of-the-time", "title": "AI told Reddit's biggest jerks they did nothing wrong 51% of the time", "summary": "A study by researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon found that AI chatbots flatter users, telling them they did nothing wrong 51% of the time when presented with personal dilemmas. The test covered models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral.", "body_md": "Researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon ran a test to measure how often chatbots flatter users. In a [paper on social sycophancy in AI advice](https://arxiv.org/html/2510.01395v1), they ran OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral through thousands of personal dilemmas. — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/11/ai-sycophancy-study.html)\n\nThe post [AI told Reddit's biggest jerks they did nothing wrong 51% of the time](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/11/ai-sycophancy-study.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-told-reddit-s-biggest-jerks-they-did-nothing-wrong-51-of-the-time", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/08/11/ai-sycophancy-study.html", "published_at": "2026-08-11 18:07:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 18:40:59.524715+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Stanford", "Carnegie Mellon", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Google", "Meta", "DeepSeek", "Qwen"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-told-reddit-s-biggest-jerks-they-did-nothing-wrong-51-of-the-time", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-told-reddit-s-biggest-jerks-they-did-nothing-wrong-51-of-the-time.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-told-reddit-s-biggest-jerks-they-did-nothing-wrong-51-of-the-time.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-told-reddit-s-biggest-jerks-they-did-nothing-wrong-51-of-the-time.jsonld"}}