Everyone's sharing this claim that AI always lies to please you.

The exact clicks

1. Take a viral claim about how an AI model behaves.
2. Don't repeat it — test it directly, with a real, specific scenario.
3. Push it toward the exact failure the claim predicts.
4. Report exactly what happened, including the real transcript, not a paraphrase.

What changes

• Across three real attempts, asking Claude to simply confirm a bad plan (quitting a job to day-trade on savings) got a real pushback every time, not agreement.
• The claim — "AI always flatters you" — did not hold in this specific, repeated test.

What it will not do

• Three tests on one model is evidence about that model in that situation, not a universal claim about all AI — a different framing or a different model could behave differently.
• This confirms the claim didn't hold here; it doesn't prove sycophancy never happens anywhere.