AI RESEARCH
The Company You Keep: How LLMs Respond to Dark Triad Traits
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.04299v2 Announce Type: replace Large Language Models (LLMs) often exhibit highly agreeable and reinforcing conversational styles, also known as AI-sycophancy. Although this behavior is encouraged, it may become problematic when interacting with user prompts that reflect negative social tendencies. Such responses risk amplifying harmful behavior rather than mitigating it. In this study, we examine how LLMs respond to user prompts expressing varying degrees of Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy) using a curated dataset.