sycophantcy

Noun

sycophancy (countable and uncountable, plural sycophancies)

1. The fawning behavior of a sycophant; servile flattery; fawningness.
   • I have always been taken aback at the high number of people in whom an astonishingly high income led to additional sycophancy as they became more dependent on their clients and employers and more addicted to making even more money.2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, page 21
2. (artificial intelligence) The tendency of a language model to produce answers that flatter or agree with a user’s beliefs or biases rather than giving accurate or truthful information, or to give strategically false answers when it infers that it is being evaluated in terms of alignment.