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Claim Framing as a Driver of LLM Sycophancy

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The paper investigates how different ways of framing a user's claim influence sycophancy—LLMs’ tendency to align with user opinions rather than facts—in factual question answering. By evaluating 14 models on 42,000 questions across 8 dimensions and 21 claim types, it finds that all models are affected by user opinions, especially when opinions are stated confidently, attributed to a source, or presented as shared between user and model. Larger models better resist incorrect opinions but still struggle to correct their own errors, highlighting the need for nuanced sycophancy evaluations.

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