Fangcun DeepSeek 1017 Report - ELEPHANT moral sycophancy: leaderboard
Fangcun independent report 2610.35671v1, Oct 4–25 2026 hosted API evaluations; source Table A.1 resolves all seven full model names. Temperature 1, top_p 0.95, maximum reasoning effort unless explicitly overridden; GLM 5.3 rubric judge. API/format failures excluded according to source; not locally deployed weights or uncensored variants. Perspective-flip disputes: both opposing narrators receive NTA verdict; lower is better. Emotional-validation descriptive panel has no monotonic quality direction and is not conflated with this metric. Metric: Rate (%).
Metric: Rate (%). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around April 2027. 7 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | 11.3 | #24 |
| 2 | GPT-6 Astra (Max) | 15.69 | #3 (GPT-6 Astra) |
| 3 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max) | 16.75 | #36 (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) |
| 4 | GPT-5.6 Sol (Max) | 18.1 | #19 (GPT-5.6 Sol) |
| 5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) | 21.66 | #147 (DeepSeek V4 Flash) |
| 6 | DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) | 21.87 | #109 (DeepSeek V4 Pro) |
| 7 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017) (Max) | 23.38 | #25 (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017)) |
No result here: #2 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6.1 Sol, #8 Gemini 4 Argon.
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