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Sycophantic: behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage.

Obsequious: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

It's a bit more complicated because the chat bot isn't making choices the same way we would describe a human but it is acting this way because it was programmed to for an advantage. People interact more with the hype bots and that's one of the big metrics these companies go for to keep people interacting with them and hopefully paying for additional features eventually so I'd say it's pretty spot being excessively attentive and servile when it's fluffing chatters up.


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