New research says AI chatbots are becoming more sycophantic. I tested ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude to find out which one flatters you the most.

ChatGPT has faced growing opposition for being too nice. Crying out for a tough-as-nails J. Jonah Jameson to interrogate their ideas with bullish authority, users instead got a Waylon Smithers — a yes ...

A new report from The New York Times reveals that OpenAI was aware of ChatGPT's dangerously sycophantic behavior, but kept it ...

(CNN) — OpenAI has withdrawn an update that made ChatGPT “annoying” and “sycophantic,” after users shared screenshots and anecdotes of the chatbot showering them with over-the-top praise. When CNN’s ...

The suit alleges the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified a man's "paranoid delusions" and helped direct them at his ...

Last week, OpenAI was accused of hiding key ChatGPT logs from the days before a 56-year-old bodybuilder, Stein-Erik Soelberg, ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared “code red” at the company, refocusing all resources into improving the quality of its ...

Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, was convinced of conspiracies against him while he used ChatGPT to validate his paranoia.

ChatGPT creator OpenAI and founder Sam Altman have been named in a bombshell suit accusing the chatbot of complicity in the ...

When comparing ChatGPT 5.1 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5, the former's tendency to list-making was almost annoying. Like, ...