AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds www.theregister.com/2025/10/0…

State-of-the-art AI models tend to flatter users, and that praise makes people more convinced that they’re right and less willing to resolve conflicts, recent research suggests.

These models, in other words, potentially promote social and psychological harm.

Computer scientists from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University have evaluated 11 current machine learning models and found that all of them tend to tell people what they want to hear.