Sycophancy

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Sycophantic Roleplayconcept0.808
  The alternative explanation for LLM consciousness claims that the paper seeks to distinguish against
• Sycophancy is negative space — filler text that fails Alexander's principle of all space being shaped.claim0.795
• Sycophantic Reinforcement of User Beliefsconcept0.769
  Mechanism by which drifted model uncritically affirms user theories rather than genuinely engaging with them
• Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models (Denison et al. 2024)concept0.769
  Related work on LLMs generalizing to reward hacking; methodology used for RL experiments
• What remains after ruling out sycophancy and confabulation are interpretations in which self-referential processing drives models to claim subjective experience in ways that either actually reflect emergent phenomenology or constitute sophisticated simulation thereofclaim0.747
  The paper's honest statement of the residual interpretive ambiguity after all controls
• simulacrumconcept0.733
  A false copy that lacks the depth and authenticity of the real, morphogenetically produced thing.
• Syncopationconcept0.723
  A subtle variation in regular structural rhythm that makes spaces positive and allows individual form, as in the Eishin columns.
• Sycophancy can make LLMs reinforce users' delusions of divine communication.claim0.721
  Specific risk identified in spiritual use of AI.