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

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.

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 The 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 .