2026
ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs
ICLR 2026poster
LLMs are known to exhibit _sycophancy_: agreeing with and flattering users, even at the cost of correctness. Prior work measures sycophancy only as direct agreement with users' explicitly stated beliefs that can be compared to a ground truth. This fails to capture broader forms of sycophancy such as…