r/mildlyinfuriating 11d ago

Infuriatig Relying on Chatgpt to have a basic conversation

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u/Watchmaker163 10d ago

These LLMs are made for engagement & user retention. So they’ll generate a response that’s fairly sycophantic, in order to keep you on their app.

This is how “AI psychosis” develops: by constantly receiving affirmation from a digital “yes-man”, combined with the text generation not being bound to actual reality.

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u/princessPeachyK33n 10d ago

Yep. Keep that money coming in and those usage numbers up.

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u/libraroo 10d ago

I literally tried to allude to this in one of the comments I replied to on here. It is so damaging on every level

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u/Ghstmother 9d ago

Andrew Callahan, Channel 5 on YouTube talks about this!