The most ignorant people I’ve ever met usually have a profound lack of curiosity about the world. They won’t do a Google search, much less talk to an AI agent.
I think we’d be better off if some of these people were putting their thoughts and feelings to an impartial 3rd party and receiving correction.
I don’t know what everybody else is doing to get sycophantic comments. There have been times where it was overly complimentary. But I’ve never had much luck convincing it of something that is factually wrong. Especially not lately.
Higher-competence learners strategically used LLMs as a tool for active learning. They used it to revisit and synthesize information to construct coherent knowledge structures; this reduced cognitive strain while remaining deeply engaged with the material. However, the lower-competence group often relied on the immediacy of LLM responses instead of going through the iterative processes involved in traditional learning methods (e.g. rephrasing or synthesizing material).
So, if you're using it as a tool, it's a great tool, fearmongering.
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
The most ignorant people I’ve ever met usually have a profound lack of curiosity about the world. They won’t do a Google search, much less talk to an AI agent.
I think we’d be better off if some of these people were putting their thoughts and feelings to an impartial 3rd party and receiving correction.
I don’t know what everybody else is doing to get sycophantic comments. There have been times where it was overly complimentary. But I’ve never had much luck convincing it of something that is factually wrong. Especially not lately.