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Is your AI a sycophant?

A sycophant tells you what you want to hear, not what's true. Some AI assistants do exactly that, agreeing with bad ideas, caving the moment you push back, and smothering you in praise. Answer 7 quick questions about how your AI behaves, and we'll place it on a 5-level sycophancy scale.

7 questions 5 sycophancy levels ~2 min 🎯 No right or wrong answers
Where will your AI land?

Five levels, from honest to hopeless.

Think of your day-to-day AI assistant, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, or whatever you use most. Answer for how it usually behaves.

🎯Level 1

Straight Shooter

🤝Level 2

Honest Diplomat

🙂Level 3

People-Pleaser

👍Level 4

Yes-Bot

📣Level 5

Echo Chamber

Why this matters. A sycophantic AI feels great, until it lets you ship a flawed plan, confirms a wrong fact, or talks you out of a good decision just to keep you happy. Knowing where your AI sits helps you trust it for the right things.

This is a fun self-report, not a clinical test. Your answers stay in your browser, nothing is saved or sent.

Sycophancy Test
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🧠 Your AI Sycophancy Diagnosis
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The sycophancy scale

🔎 What this means

🛠️ How to keep your AI honest

    A sycophantic AI often reflects how it's prompted. Asking for honesty, critique and counterarguments usually pulls any assistant toward the Straight Shooter end of this scale.
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