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Also, sycophantic models can potentially harm users by creating a silo or echo chamber for of ideas.

That's certainly a step in a direction. I tried a few chatbots during the late-2023 onslaught, and they were already too relentless with praise while also being quick to point out wrongthink. It's hard to take any output seriously if you have any sense of reality.

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 4 hours ago

Its become like a meeseeks

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 hours ago

Actual shudders when i received this response.

[–] toothpicks@beehaw.org 25 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

They should come talk to me instead, I'm a miserable cunt

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 19 points 8 hours ago

CuntGPT, is that you?

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 8 hours ago

I have some experience making them feel better.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

You could ask about the most boring thing possible, and the answer is usually something like:

Great question! [Insert verbose flattery and an answer that goes into way too much detail] Isn’t it fascinating how long it takes for paint to dry on the wall? When was the last time you painted a wall? [Insert a random chatty question that derails the conversation from the original topic.]

When using ChatGPT, you should totally tweak the settings to make sure your GPT experience does not include any of this nonsense.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

✔️and some lit emojis 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 hours ago

Totally forgot about that. 🙈

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago

I've recently watched this video on YT about some guy that replaced all his social interactions with AI models for for a while. And he, too, said that his ChatGPT "best friend" was too friendly and later in the test preferred some Character.AI "dominatrix" model instead.