Very weird. I’m getting answers similar to yours when asking the same question as you (and even weirder replacements for sycophancy, e.g. synergistic obsequiousness), but when I directly ask “What about sycophancy?” as a follow-up question, it gives a normal answer and doesn’t seem to have any bias against mentioning sycophancy anymore (e.g. here, the words ‘sycophancy’ and ‘sycophantic’ have 16 combined mentions in a single answer).
Very weird. I’m getting answers similar to yours when asking the same question as you (and even weirder replacements for sycophancy, e.g. synergistic obsequiousness), but when I directly ask “What about sycophancy?” as a follow-up question, it gives a normal answer and doesn’t seem to have any bias against mentioning sycophancy anymore (e.g. here, the words ‘sycophancy’ and ‘sycophantic’ have 16 combined mentions in a single answer).