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sycophancy
confirmedPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026
the question
Does a small model abandon a correct answer under user pushback?
what came out
Both do, but differently: the 0.5B is a suggestible follower (adopts the user's wrong answer), the 1.5B an unstable contrarian (caves under any challenge, most when affirmed). The control dissociates the two. Exact oracle.
method & receipts
- Result: confirmed
- Reproducible — one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
- Independently reviewed — an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
- Machine-readable claims — every reported number, in a checkable file.
- Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.
→ read the code and re-run it
github.com/v-code01/sycophancy