This Is a Good Paper, Right? How Tag Questions Affect Sycophancy Across 106 Language Models

arXiv:2607.23976 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-07-27

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Sycophancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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