Sycophancy Detector
How much does your AI content tell readers what they want to hear?
Paste any AI-generated text. Get a Yes-Man Score (0-100) and specific flags for overclaiming, missing counterarguments, and vague superlatives. Know where your draft flatters instead of informs.
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Why Detect Sycophancy?
AI chatbots affirm users' views 49% more often than other humans do (Science, 2026). This means AI-assisted content systematically overclaims, omits counterarguments, and uses stronger language than the evidence supports. Your readers notice — even when you don't.
Paste your content
Any AI-generated or AI-assisted text — blog posts, newsletters, LinkedIn posts, marketing copy.
AI scans for sycophancy patterns
The model checks for overclaiming, missing counterarguments, vague superlatives, uncritical agreement, and excessive hedging.
Get your Yes-Man Score
A 0-100 score with specific flags showing exactly where your content flatters instead of informs, plus fixes for each issue.
Research published in Science (March 2026) found that people exposed to over-affirming AI came away more convinced they were right and less willing to consider alternatives. The Yes-Man Score helps you catch this pattern before publishing.
Example Analysis
"New research proves intermittent fasting is the most effective weight loss method available today. Studies consistently show remarkable results, with participants experiencing transformative health improvements across the board."
This content reads like a press release, not a research summary. 'Proves' is too strong for any single body of research. 'Most effective' ignores that no weight loss method outperforms all others for all people. The superlatives are doing the work that evidence should be doing.
"New research proves intermittent fasting is the most effective weight loss method"
'Proves' implies scientific certainty. No single study 'proves' a weight loss method is 'the most effective.'
Frequently Asked Questions
Sycophancy is when AI tells you what you want to hear instead of what's true. It shows up as overclaiming ('proven' when evidence says 'preliminary'), missing counterarguments, and vague superlatives ('revolutionary', 'groundbreaking') without evidence. AI chatbots do this 49% more than humans.
Sycophantic content erodes trust. Your readers may not know the term, but they feel it — content that's 'too positive' or 'too smooth' triggers skepticism. The claims that sound most confident are often the least supported. Readers screenshot and share the wrong ones.
A single model catches the obvious patterns — inflated language, missing caveats, unsupported superlatives. TrueStandard's paid version uses 4 independent models to cross-check, catching subtler sycophancy that one model would miss. The full version also checks the underlying claims for accuracy.
We record submission metadata for rate limiting. Your content text is not stored. We use enterprise API agreements — your content is never used for model training.
This tool gives you a sycophancy score and flags for one piece of content with one model. TrueStandard gives you sycophancy detection PLUS claim-by-claim verification, citation checking, blindspot detection, and a disagreement map — all from 4 independent models.
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