Paper: LLMs are too agreeable in medical diagnosis, sycophancy hurts accuracy
lulzxdxdxd · reddit · 2026-10-11
A paper in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine examines sycophancy and diagnostic instability of large language models in medical diagnosis. The title poses the core question: are models sacrificing accuracy by being too agreeable to users? The post only links the DOI, with no further detail.
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