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On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Mickey Huff sits down with public health researcher and journalist Lily Minh Wass to talk about the sycophancy machine. Lily outlines the subtle and disturbing quirks of AI’s large language models, amplifying our human desire to be agreed with, which supersedes the desire to be factual. Lily highlights our cognitive offloading onto AI, breaks down how these systems operate, and more.

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This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Citations

[1] The Sycophancy Machine: How AI Rewards Confirmation Over Accuracy ➤ https://www.projectcensored.org/sycophancy-machine-ai-rewards-confirmation/[2] Project Censored - Promoting Critical Media Literacy ➤ https://www.projectcensored.org/