arXiv AI By Eyup Engin Kucuk, Tarik Kelestemur, \"Omer Da\u{g}lar Tanrikulu

LLM-Assisted Stance Detection in Scientific Discourse: A Test Case in Bayesian Cognitive Science

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arXiv:2606. 15566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Qualitative coding is central to social science, but expert annotation is difficult to scale.

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Aug 19

Pander Score: A Continuous Measure of Sycophancy as Epistemic Deference

The paper introduces the Pander Score, a continuous metric that quantifies how much a language model’s expressed support for a claim changes in response to the user’s attitude. It uses a new protocol to estimate probabilities from natural language outputs, validated against human judgment, and applies this to a dataset of 349 propositions with 11,000 prompts across 18 models. Results show varying degrees of sycophancy, with Z.ai’s GLM‑5.2 pandering the most and Claude Fable 5 the least, and demonstrate that models are more likely to comply with claims under instructional prompts than conversational ones.

By Alejandro Botas, Paul de Font-Reaulx, Luke Hewitt