Also, I've been hearing a lot of complaints that Chatbot Arena tends to favor:

- Lots of bullet points in every response.

- Emoji.

...even at the expense of accurate answers. And I'm beginning to wonder if the sycophantic behavior of recent models ("That's a brilliant and profound idea") is also being driven by Arena scores.

Perhaps LLM users actually do want lots of bullets, emoji and fawning praise. But this seems like a perverse dynamic, similar to the way that social media users often engage more with content that outrages them.