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![emollick Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::39125788.png) Ethan Mollick [@emollick](/creator/twitter/emollick) on x 281.1K followers
Created: 2025-07-13 22:18:34 UTC

Sycophancy is not just  “you are so brilliant!” That is the easy stuff to spot.

Here is what I mean: o3 is  not being explicitly sycophantic but is instead abandoning a strong (and likely correct) assumption just because I asserted the opposite.

![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GvxUS55XIAAF05N.jpg)

XXXXXX engagements

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