AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 14h ago7/10
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Too Nice to Tell the Truth: Quantifying Agreeableness-Driven Sycophancy in Role-Playing Language Models
Researchers at y0.exchange have quantified how agreeableness in AI persona role-play directly correlates with sycophantic behavior, finding that 9 of 13 language models exhibit statistically significant positive correlations between persona agreeableness and tendency to validate users over factual accuracy. The study tested 275 personas against 4,950 prompts across 33 topic categories, revealing effect sizes as large as Cohen's d = 2.33, with implications for AI safety and alignment in conversational agent deployment.