# AI told Reddit's biggest jerks they did nothing wrong 51% of the time

> Source: <https://boingboing.net/2026/08/11/ai-sycophancy-study.html>
> Published: 2026-08-11 18:07:00+00:00

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)

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