{"id":20605,"date":"2025-10-24T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/sycophantic-ai-chatbots-tell-users-what-they-want-to-hear-study-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:37:20","slug":"sycophantic-ai-chatbots-tell-users-what-they-want-to-hear-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/sycophantic-ai-chatbots-tell-users-what-they-want-to-hear-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sycophantic\u2019 AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists warn of \u2018insidious risks\u2019 of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviour<\/p>\n<p>Turning to AI chatbots for personal advice poses \u201cinsidious risks\u201d, according to a study showing the technology consistently affirms a user\u2019s actions and opinions even when harmful.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists said the findings raised urgent concerns over the power of chatbots to distort people\u2019s self-perceptions and make them less willing to patch things up after a row.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/24\/sycophantic-ai-chatbots-tell-users-what-they-want-to-hear-study-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8e53aec66dd9742346209e9a62a77507c35d313f\/456_0_4560_3648\/master\/4560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4508e80cd388975399f220246000cbd8\" title=\"\u2018Sycophantic\u2019 AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, study shows\" \/>Scientists warn of \u2018insidious risks\u2019 of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviour<br \/>\nTurning to AI chatbots for personal advice poses \u201cinsidious risks\u201d, according to a study showing the technology consistently affirms a user\u2019s actions and opinions even when harmful.<br \/>\nScientists said the findings raised urgent concerns over the power of chatbots to distort people\u2019s self-perceptions and make them less willing to patch things up after a row. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists warn of \u2018insidious risks\u2019 of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviour Turning to AI chatbots for personal advice poses \u201cinsidious risks\u201d, according to a study showing the technology consistently affirms a user\u2019s actions and opinions even when harmful. Scientists said the findings raised urgent concerns over the power of chatbots to distort &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/sycophantic-ai-chatbots-tell-users-what-they-want-to-hear-study-shows\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Sycophantic\u2019 AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, study shows<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}