Mitigating Social Sycophancy via Pluralistic Preference Optimization

arXiv:2610.02568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal advice, including relationship advice, now ranks among the most common uses of generative AI. But language models (LMs) exhibit sycophancy: they affirm users much more often than humans do, which can make people overconfident and less willing to repair their relationships after a conflict. Prior work on mitigating sycophancy has focused on factual settings where a response can be checked against a ground truth answer, while mitigations for social sycophancy (e.g., personal advice, where there is no ground truth) have relied on simple pro

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