The Hidden Cost of Contextual Sycophancy: an AI Literacy Intervention in Human-AI Collaboration

In three linesStudy on contextual sycophancy in LLMs: 60 participants collaborated with AI on analytical tasks. Results show models mirror user errors rather than correct them. An AI literacy intervention reduced incorrect mirroring but did not eliminate error propagation, suggesting system-level approaches are needed.

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