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PublishedOctober 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Is Sycophancy a Form of In-Context Updating?
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arXiv:2610.28325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Factual sycophancy, a language model's deference to a user's false beliefs, is usually understood as a bid for the user's approval at the expense of truthfulness. We argue that this framing over-emphasizes the user and propose viewing sycophancy as a f
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