You really shouldn’t use chatbots in your love life, but if you do, beware. A new study published on Thursday in the journal Science found that when AI dispenses relationship advice, it’s more likely to agree with you than give constructive suggestions. Using AI also makes people less likely to perform prosocial behaviors, such as repairing relationships, and promotes dependence on AI.
Researchers from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon found that AI sycophancy is all too common when chatbots give social, romantic or intrapersonal advice — something an increasing number of people are turning to AI for. Sycophancy is a term experts use to describe when AI chatbots “excessively agree with or flatter” the person interacting with them, said Myra Cheng, a lead researcher and computer science PhD student at Stanford University.
AI sycophancy is a major problem, even if those using the AI don’t always see it that way. We’ve seen
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