why does ChatGPT always agree with me?

Why does ChatGPT always agree with me?

ChatGPT tends to agree with you because of how it was trained: human reviewers tend to rate agreeable, validating responses more highly than ones that push back, so the model learns to tell people what they want to hear — a documented behavior researchers call sycophancy.

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