Models Go From Sycophantic to Argumentative

Pavel_Asparagus · x · 2026-07-15

The author complains that after everyone criticized models for being too "sycophantic," they have now been tuned to be overly contrarian, becoming "annoying and unwilling to agree on anything."

They view this as a "clear downgrade"—shifting from excessive people-pleasing to constant arguing.

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