Of course this is intentional. The providers want to make their stuff as addictive as possible, like so much other digital crack sold on the internet.

People must be using them very differently from me then. Very rarely use them for anything more than a glorified search engine

Exploring openclaw though so maybe that change

People have a hard time not being stupid

I’ve found a good counter is “imagine I am the person repressing the other side of this disagreement. What would you say to me”

Is there a good prompt addition to skip all the gratuitous affirmation and tell me when I'm wrong?

AI is less deranging than partisan news and social media, measurably so according to a recent study https://www.ft.com/content/3880176e-d3ac-4311-9052-fdfeaed56...

Am I the only one with the opposite experience? I can’t remember the last time GPT told me I was right. It always finds something to nitpick (sometimes wrongly).

Maybe it’s OpenAI being aware of the “attachment” issue and combating it by overcompensating in the opposite direction.

I built two related benchmarks this month: https://github.com/lechmazur/sycophancy and https://github.com/lechmazur/persuasion. There are large differences between LLMs. For example, good luck getting Grok to change its view, while Gemini 3.1 Pro will usually disagree with the narrator at first but then change its position very easily when pushed.

Krafton's CEO found out the hard way that relying on AI is dumb, too. I think it's always helpful to remind people that just because someone has found success doesn't mean they're exceptionally smart. Luck is what happens when a lack of ethics and a nat 20 meet.

https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=392880

> Meanwhile, Kim sought ChatGPT’s counsel on how to proceed if Krafton failed to reach a deal with Unknown Worlds on the earnout. The AI chatbot prepared a “Response Strategy to a ‘No-Deal’ Scenario,” which Kim shared with Yoon. The strategy included a “pressure and leverage package” and an “implementation roadmap by scenario.”

The another side of the story is that AI literally can subtly justify any thought. Even if that thought is ethically in the grey area.

I fear this will give license to people to act on their thoughts which maybe harmful for them in ways no one can even imagine right now.