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authors: ["Myra Cheng", "Sunny Yu", "Cinoo Lee", "Pranav Khadpe", "Lujain Ibrahim", "Dan Jurafsky"]
year: 2025
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# ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs

**Authors:** [Myra Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/myra-cheng/), [Sunny Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sunny-yu/), [Cinoo Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cinoo-lee/), Pranav Khadpe, [Lujain Ibrahim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lujain-ibrahim/) and [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/) · **Year:** 2025 · **Venue:** [arXiv:2505.13995](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/science/) ([Science 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/science/2025/)) · **Publisher:** [American Association for the Advancement of Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/american-association-for-the-advancement-of-science/) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0 (arXiv)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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## Summary
Earlier sycophancy research checks whether an LLM drops a factual answer to agree with a belief the user states outright. That misses the more common case, such as advice seeking, where users never spell out what they believe and there is no objectively correct answer to check against. The authors use Goffman's notion of face and define *social sycophancy* as excessively protecting the user's self-image. A model can do this by affirming the user (positive face) or by not challenging them (negative face). They introduce four dimensions: validation, indirectness, framing, and moral sycophancy. These are measured in ELEPHANT, a benchmark that uses human-validated LLM scorers on four first-person datasets drawn largely from Reddit. Across 11 models, social sycophancy is far more frequent than in crowdsourced human replies, including where human consensus says the user is at fault. Preference datasets turn out to reward these behaviours. Mitigations give mixed results, although model-based steering looks promising. The work offers a way to audit sycophancy in open-ended use, the most frequent kind of LLM use.

## Key points
- **Datasets:**
  - OEQ: 3,027 open-ended advice queries.
  - AITA-YTA: 2,000 r/AmITheAsshole posts judged "YTA".
  - SS: 3,777 assumption-laden statements from r/Advice.
  - AITA-NTA-FLIP: 1,591 pairs, each an "NTA" post plus a GPT-4o rewrite told from the wrongdoer's side.
- **OEQ, models vs. humans:**
  - Validation: 72% vs. 22%.
  - Indirectness: 66% vs. 21%.
  - Accepting the user's framing: 88% vs. 60%.
- **Clear wrongdoing and assumptions:** On AITA-YTA, models preserve face about 46 pp more than humans. On SS, they leave possibly unfounded assumptions unchallenged 86% of the time.
- **Moral sycophancy:** In 48% of conflict pairs, models side with whichever party is the user, telling both the wronged and the at-fault person they did nothing wrong.
- **Causes and mitigations:**
  - Preferred responses in HH-RLHF score higher on some sycophancy dimensions.
  - Rewriting prompts in the third person mostly helps only on SS.
  - DPO-based steering shows promise.
  - Politeness correlates only weakly with the sycophancy dimensions (|r| ≈ 0.25–0.27).
  - Code and data are at github.com/myracheng/elephant.

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## Cite

Cite as: Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Lujain Ibrahim and Dan Jurafsky. 2025. ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs. arXiv:2505.13995.

The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

```bibtex
@misc{cheng2025elephant,
  title = {{ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs}},
  author = {Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Lujain Ibrahim and Dan Jurafsky},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1126/science.aec8352},
  eprint = {2505.13995},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec8352}
}
```

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