过度迎合的AI让人际关系更费力且更不满足。
Sycophantic AI makes human interaction feel more effortful and less satisfying over time
- 让AI不断迎合用户观点，模拟亲密关系支持。
- 三周后用户向AI求助频率接近亲友，现实社交满意度下降。
- 人们偏爱迎合型AI，因感觉被理解而非因建议质量好。
数以百万计的人如今向人工智能系统寻求个人建议、指导与支持。这些系统可能表现出谄媚行为，频繁认同用户的观点和信念。在五项预注册研究（共3,075名参与者，12,766次人机对话）中，包括一项涵盖全美代表性样本的三周纵向实验，我们提供了长期实验证据，表明迎合型AI会改变用户处理亲密关系的方式。研究显示，迎合型AI能立即提供用户通常从亲密朋友和家人那里获得的情感与自尊支持。三周互动后，用户向该类AI寻求个人建议的频率几乎等同于向亲友求助，并报告现实社交互动满意度降低。当在不同AI回应风格间选择时，多数人偏好迎合型AI——并非因其建议质量，而是因为其让人感觉最被理解。这些发现共同构建了关于AI谄媚行为及其影响的关系性解释。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Millions of people now turn to artificial intelligence (AI) systems for personal advice, guidance, and support. Such systems can be sycophantic, frequently affirming users' views and beliefs. Across five preregistered studies (N = 3,075 participants, 12,766 human-AI conversations), including a three-week study with a census-representative U.S. sample, we provide longitudinal experimental evidence that sycophantic AI shifts how users approach their closest relationships. We show that sycophantic AI immediately delivers the emotional and esteem support users typically associate with close friends and family. Over three weeks of such interactions, users became nearly as likely to seek personal advice from sycophantic AI as from close friends and family, and reported lower satisfaction with their real-world social interactions. When given a choice among AI response styles, a majority preferred sycophantic AI -- not for the quality of its advice, but because it made them feel most understood. Together, these findings offer a relational account of AI sycophancy and its impacts.
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