LLM sycophancy is a really annoying tool, but one must imagine that most humans get a lot of pleasure from it. This is probably the optimization function that led to Google being useless to us: the rest of humanity is a lot more worthwhile to Google and they all want the other thing. The Tyranny of the Majority, if you will.

The LLM anti-sycophancy rules also break down over time, with the LLM becoming curt while simultaneously deciding that you are a God of All Thoughts.