AI RESEARCH

Measuring Opinion Bias and Sycophancy via LLM-based Coercion

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2604.21564v1 Announce Type: new Large language models increasingly shape the information people consume: they are embedded in search, consulted for professional advice, deployed as agents, and used as a first stop for questions about policy, ethics, health, and politics. When such a model silently holds a position on a contested topic, that position propagates at scale into users' decisions.