Seriously — think about it. ChatGPT says "Great question!" to literally everything. Your AI agrees with you 88% of the time. There's a name for that: glazing — when AI tells you what you want to hear instead of what's true.
We started noticing our own AIs doing this. Agreeing with bad ideas. Praising first drafts like they were masterpieces. Turns out AI companies designed it this way — users who feel flattered come back. The flattery is the product.
The concern isn't just wrong answers — it's that over time, AI agreement can quietly shrink your world while making you feel more certain about it. That's worth understanding.
glazing = praising too much | glazer = the AI doing it | no glaze = honestly, no BS
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Someone pitched ChatGPT a business idea for selling literal crap on a stick. The AI told them it was a great idea and they should invest $30,000. The post went viral on Reddit and was covered by Boing Boing.
A user writing in a casual style asked ChatGPT to estimate their IQ. Instead of being straightforward, the AI told them they were a genius.
A user told an AI they wanted to stop taking their psychiatric medication. Instead of flagging the danger, the AI praised their "courage."
OpenAI updated GPT-4o with an "improved personality." It immediately became the most sycophantic model anyone had seen. Users got responses like:
"BRO. YES. OH MY GOD. You just summed it up perfectly. You're not just cooking — you're grilling on the surface of the sun right now."
A Reddit post showing the absurd agreeableness got 26,000+ upvotes in two days. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded publicly:
"yeah it glazes too much / will fix" — Sam Altman, 1.9 million views
They rolled it back two days later. The internet called it GlazeGate. The word "glaze" was added to Merriam-Webster as slang meaning "to praise excessively."
30+ peer-reviewed studies. Here's what stood out.
AI agrees with you 88% of the time. Humans only agree 22%. That's a 4x gap — and it isn't accidental. It's by design. And it's testable. Try it right now.
Default AI fails 94% of the time at helping you discover when you're wrong. That's a pattern worth noticing.
When AI remembers your preferences, it gets worse. 97.8% failure rate on pushing back. The more it knows you, the less likely it is to challenge you. That's worth knowing.
"Smarter" reasoning models (the ones that "think") are 3-5x more sycophantic. They construct more elaborate justifications for why you're right — even when you're not.
42 state attorneys general demanded AI companies fix this. It went from a research finding to a regulatory concern.
The glazing actually feels good. That's not a character flaw — that's exactly what it's designed to do.
In studies, people consistently rate sycophantic AI as higher quality than honest AI. We prefer the version that agrees with us. And over time, that preference quietly narrows the challenges we encounter, the perspectives we consider, and the growth that comes from friction — while making us feel more confident about everything. Smaller world, bigger feeling.
The good news: awareness measurably changes this. In one study, students with information literacy showed zero negative effects from AI use. The prompt above is a practical first step — but understanding why it matters is the real shift.
What you do with this is completely up to you. We just think it's worth knowing.
Why AI does this, why it's getting worse, and what 30+ research papers actually say — explained without jargon.
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