Got insincere flattery?

[firecat]

“But I had an epiphany. You know what all this sycophancy constantly being told you’re right, that you’re brilliant, that every decision is flawless? That sounds an awful lot like being a billionaire.”

[sic - perhaps the grammatical error is to show the writer is not an AI]

"The Secret Tool AI Uses to Seduce You: Explained," by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis

I use AI to get answers to simple questions and I hate when the bot addresses me personally. I hate it possibly to an irrational degree. (Even when someone else shares with me an AI convo they had, I get mad.) Do you use AI for anything and what do you think of this design choice?

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[firecat]

In my experience, DDG’s AI has gotten more accurate, but I did encounter a lot of errors at first, and it’s still often mistaken about information that’s new. (E.g., policy changes at companies.)

DDG’s AI gives you a couple of links it supposedly used to get the answer to my question, so one can go to the links and double check its work. The links are often to sites I consider trustworthy, and when I’ve followed those, I usually find the same information on them that the AI gave me. So that’s why I trust most of the answers are correct and how I double check when I don’t trust.