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Posted by Brajeshwar 1 day ago

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right(www.theregister.com)
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sizzzzlerz 1 day ago|
Imagine that.
pugchat 23 hours ago||
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vincentabolarin 1 day ago||
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seankwon816 1 day ago||
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elicohen1000 1 day ago||
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jmcgough 1 day ago||
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simonw 1 day ago||
Strikes me this is another example of AI giving everyone access to services that used to be exclusive to the super-rich.

Used to be only the wealthiest students could afford to pay someone else to write their essay homework for them. Now everyone can use ChatGPT.

Used to be you had to be a Trumpian-millionaire/Elonian-billionaire to afford an army of Yes-men to agree with your every idea. Now anyone can have that!

lucideer 1 day ago|
I've observed this in all chatbots with the single exception being Grok. I initially wondered what the Twitter engineers were cooking to to distinguish their product from the rest, but more recently it's occurred to me that it's probably just the result of having shared public context, compared to private chats (I haven't trialled Grok privately).
delichon 1 day ago||
Grok has similar levels of sycophancy to the others imho. I have several times followed it down rabbit holes of agreeableness. It does have an argumentative mode, but that just turns it into an asshole without any additional thoughfulness.
lucideer 1 day ago|||
Yeah this makes sense (presuming you're talking about private chat). Most of what I've seen from Grok is its comments in a public forum, which are less targetted toward a single individual & therefore, I presume, less likely to be agreeable given the perspectives being expressed are diverse.
LightBug1 1 day ago|||
Sounds familiar.
colbyn 1 day ago||
In my experience Grok is the least likely to push back on crazy ideas out of all major chatbots and it’s more often wrong on technical matters. Although I suppose this isn’t necessarily bad. I go to Grok for subjective explorations.