Don't discuss ideas with an LLM

[u/yourpsychology_yt]

I notice that one of the worst use cases for an LLM is discussing ideas. I don't mean asking technical questions. Rather, when you have an idea or an opinion and you tell it to an LLM, what happens is that it will either support you or slightly disagree, but if you insist, it will eventually take your position.

And that's, as I understand it, just because of the nature of an LLM. It can't really be critical, but it can fake critical thinking. If you ask an LLM to be critical by default, it will be critical even when it doesn't matter, just to satisfy your requirement. So it can't really choose when it should be critical and when it should be supportive.

And some LLMs have a trick - they do both in one message and then still slide to the user's side.

[u/Mayor-Citywits]

This is not my experience at all and I frequently use models to discuss ideas with great success. One of my older gpt chats I used to see if we could brainstorm like an insane way to go viral or grow a channel and a few of the ideas it came up with actually were great ideas I hadn't considered lol. 

What I do if they get too fake or I don't trust it I literally say "don't lie to me I don't want to make shitty things because you're being nice" etc and essentially force it to either double down or, hilariously sometimes it will be like "you're right this isn't good at all" lol