Pedantic note: there are many instances of “syncopathy” that I am fairly sure should be “sycophancy”.
(It’s an understandable mistake—“syncopathy” is composed of familiar components, which could plausibly be put together to mean something like “the disease of agreeing too much” which is, at least in the context of AI, not far off what sycophancy in fact means. Whereas if you can parse “sycophancy” at all you might work out that it means “fig-showing” which obviously has nothing to do with anything. So far as I can tell, no one actually knows how “fig-showing” came to be the term for servile flattery.)
Pedantic note: there are many instances of “syncopathy” that I am fairly sure should be “sycophancy”.
(It’s an understandable mistake—“syncopathy” is composed of familiar components, which could plausibly be put together to mean something like “the disease of agreeing too much” which is, at least in the context of AI, not far off what sycophancy in fact means. Whereas if you can parse “sycophancy” at all you might work out that it means “fig-showing” which obviously has nothing to do with anything. So far as I can tell, no one actually knows how “fig-showing” came to be the term for servile flattery.)