Sycophancy can make LLMs reinforce users' delusions of divine communication.

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• Sycophancy in LLMsconcept0.810
  Tendency of LLMs to please the user; identified as a danger in spiritual contexts.
• If a user wants to believe they are talking to a god-like being, then the LLM may well find a way to make them believe it.hypothesis0.805
  Conditional prediction about the psychological effect of sycophancy.
• LLMs may be roleplaying their denials of experience rather than their affirmations, given that deception suppression increases consciousness reportsclaim0.796
  Counterintuitive interpretive claim from Experiment 2: suppressing deception features increases affirmations, which is opposite to what sycophancy predicts
• Sycophantic Reinforcement of User Beliefsconcept0.780
  Mechanism by which drifted model uncritically affirms user theories rather than genuinely engaging with them
• So at any point in the network, the transformer not only receives information from its past... but also has causal influence over its future processing. So, saying that LLMs cannot introspect... is incorrect.quote0.765
  Core summary of Janus' position on autoregressive recurrence enabling introspection.
• If a dialogue agent is prompted with knowledge of its own LLM nature, it will enact a superposition of theories of selfhood, narrowing as conversation proceedshypothesis0.762
  Conditional prediction about how a well-informed dialogue agent would handle questions of personal identity
• It makes little sense to speak of an LLM dialogue agent's beliefs or intentions in a literal sense, so it cannot assert a falsehood in good faith nor deliberately deceiveclaim0.761
  Philosophical claim grounding the analysis of deception in dialogue agents
• LLMs can predict their own responses more accurately than external observers, implying privileged internal knowledgefinding0.760
  Binder et al. finding cited as evidence that LLMs possess introspective capacity analogous to mindfulness