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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is definitely both:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html

ChatGPT and other synthetic text extruding bots are doing some messed up shit with people’s brains. Don’t be an Ai apologist.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ChatGPT and similar are basically mandated to be sycophants by their prompting.

Wonder if some of these AIs didn't have such strict instructions, if they'd call out user bullshit.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably not, critical thinking is required to detect bullshit and these generative AIs haven’t proven capable of that.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

Fair point, but I'll raise the counter argument that they were trained with a lot of internet data, where people slapping each other is the norm, and that seems suspiciously absent from AI interactions...