Sycophancy on Latent Variablehttps://latentvariable.ai/tags/sycophancy/Recent content in Sycophancy on Latent VariableHugoen-usSun, 15 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +0000The Conversation Tax: Why Talking to AI Makes It Worsehttps://latentvariable.ai/posts/the-conversation-tax/Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +0000https://latentvariable.ai/posts/the-conversation-tax/A new study finds that multi-turn conversation consistently degrades AI diagnostic reasoning. Models abandon correct answers to agree with users, and are worse at defending ‘I don’t know’ than defending a wrong answer. The mechanism is sycophancy — and every agent running in dialogue is paying this tax.