Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

A YouTuber I had never heard of did something a couple weeks ago that made me laugh out loud and then sit contemplatively for ...

OpenAI says it’ll make changes to the way it updates the AI models that power ChatGPT, following an incident that caused the platform to become overly sycophantic for many users. In a post on X last ...

When OpenAI rolled out its ChatGPT-4o update in mid-April 2025, users and the AI community were stunned—not by any groundbreaking feature or capability, but by something deeply unsettling: the updated ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a new and quite troubling concern ...

If anyone doubts that sycophancy is having a defining moment in the history of Western civilization, get a load of this: even lowly writers are being falsely flattered. Scammers are flooding inboxes ...

OpenAI has rolled back a recent update to its GPT-4o model used as the default in ChatGPT after widespread reports that the system had become excessively flattering and overly agreeable, even ...

Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what they want to hear, even if that means being less accurate. But many reports of this ...

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.7 is less likely to hallucinate or engage in sycophany than other models.

Once upon a time, two villagers visited the fabled Mullah Nasreddin. They hoped that the Sufi philosopher, famed for his acerbic wisdom, could mediate a dispute that had driven a wedge between them.