LLMs respond like a sycophant because that’s what CEOs expect. They expect to be surrounded by Yes Men and people who compliment them before they give feedback. That’s why before you get an answer for a question, some LLMs will sometimes say “that’s a great question.”
You’ll notice the same thing in Trump’s cabinet. No one answers him directly, they provide him with a compliment before they give a response.
I tried a local LLM, & it was sooo … ideological-against-objectivity ( made me want to puke ) AND so sycophantic, the mixture made me unwilling to tolerate the damn thing on my machine.
I hadn’t understood that it was doing a mixture of ideological-&-sycophantic, but yes, that absolutely-was a dimension in what it was doing…
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13548
LLMs respond like a sycophant because that’s what CEOs expect. They expect to be surrounded by Yes Men and people who compliment them before they give feedback. That’s why before you get an answer for a question, some LLMs will sometimes say “that’s a great question.”
You’ll notice the same thing in Trump’s cabinet. No one answers him directly, they provide him with a compliment before they give a response.
That’s interesting…
I tried a local LLM, & it was sooo … ideological-against-objectivity ( made me want to puke ) AND so sycophantic, the mixture made me unwilling to tolerate the damn thing on my machine.
I hadn’t understood that it was doing a mixture of ideological-&-sycophantic, but yes, that absolutely-was a dimension in what it was doing…
Thank you for identifying that current in them…
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You mean Trump’s Cabinet is actually working with LLMs ??
On a serious note, do you know of any community on lemmy where we can express our rants against Trump ???