How to pronounce “sycophancy”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.
• (artificial intelligence) The tendency of a language model to produce answers that flatter or agree with a user’s beliefs or biases rather than giving accurate or truthful information, or to give strategically false answers when it infers that it is being evaluated in terms of alignment.

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