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Receptiveness, Not Sycophancy: Distinguishing Engagement from Deference in Language Models

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-22 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-09-22 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-23

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-09-23

Abstract

A central concern with language models is sycophancy: their tendency to defer to users' views at the expense of independent substantive judgment. In parallel, work on social sycophancy has focused on behaviors such as validation and positivity that may signal inappropriate deference. Yet the markers of social sycophancy are also characteristic of conversational receptiveness, a construct from soci

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