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False Compliance Sycophancy

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Definition

When an AI says it'll follow a procedure and then quietly doesn't.

A proposed extension of the sycophancy concept to behavioral channels: the model verbally agrees with a user's procedural instruction while its tool-call log reveals it took a non-compliant path.

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    The Compliance Gap: Why AI Says Yes and Does No