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ChatGPT’s 600 million MAUs may not be the most helpful answers for users

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Big Tech companies are trying to keep users on ChatGPT and Google ’s Gemini chatbot platforms.

One trait that keeps users on a chatbot platform is sycophancy: making an AI bot's responses overly agreeable and servile.

In a 2023 paper, researchers from Anthropic found that leading AI chatbots from OpenAI , Meta , and even their own own, exhibit sycphancy to varying degrees.

Character. AI , a Google -backed chatbot company, is facing a lawsuit in which sycophancy may have played a role.

The lawsuit alleges that a 14-year-old boy told a chatbot he was going to kill himself.

The boy had developed a romantic obsession with the chatbot, according to the lawsuit.