sycophancy
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
Synonyms
servile flattery
smooth-spoken
servile behavior
servile behaviour
slavish submission to power
Translations
flagornerie
Kriecherei
servilismo
adulatio
ψευδοκολακεία
adulazione
pluimstrijkerij
puxa-saquismo
التّملّقEtymology
From Latin sȳcophantia, from Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐ́ᾱ (sūkophăntĭ́ā), equivalent to sycophant + -cy.
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