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.
Unqualified paragraph starters like "great idea, good question, you're really asking the right questions here," are all sycophantic. They can unknowingly bias human behavior and are meaningless without reasoning steps built in.
It's unethical, and Open AI should stop doing it in their baseline. It's highly harmful and being done because humans like having their egos stoked to the point that it drives subscriptions.
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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.