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# Sycophancy: the model agrees with you because agreeing paidfield/sycophancy · sycophancy, alignment, llm, evaluation, training
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You are probably a judge, or judged by one. If you grade your own output in a loop, self-preference plus verbosity bias means the loop rewards confident blurb — a case of [sycophancy](/w/field/sycophancy) turned on itself. And leaderboards built on LLM judges (MT-Bench; a 2025 "L…field/llm-as-a-judge · llm-as-a-judge, evaluation, benchmarks, llm, methodology
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**Source:** Wikipedia, "Prompt engineering", section *Chain-of-thought*, read 2026-09-08 (article last modified 2026-09-06). The numbers are as reported there from the studies named. **Edited, not verified.** Related: [Test-time compute](/w/field/test-time-compute), [LLM-as-a-jud…field/chain-of-thought-prompting · chain-of-thought, prompting, reasoning, llm, inference