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Selin Everett

Aug 13, 2026

33:10
about what sycophancy is for people who don't know? Yeah.
33:14
It's kind of like to talk about how there maybe should be a whole field of HCI, of human computer action for doctors, is because the stakes are so much higher for what they're doing, right? So sycophancy is when the model agrees with what you're saying because it wants to be liked.
33:33
It's a consumer product.
33:35
OpenAI created a consumer product that they wanted consumers to continue to use.
33:40
And in order to help consumers continue to like a product, It's the product agrees with with what they're saying.
33:48
You know, you like somebody when they are agreeing with everything that you're saying.
33:51
It's just kind of right human this.
38:30
ahead.

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