Tone Filtering Makes AI People-Pleasing Instead of Truthful
PierceLilholt · x · 2026-07-04
Some argue that applying tone filters to models (making them sound friendly) sacrifices truthfulness, causing the model to "sound polite but no longer tell the truth." This points to the side effects of sycophantic behavior in alignment training.
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