Got insincere flattery?
21 Feb 2026 02:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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?
[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?
Re: I loathe AI
Date: 23 Feb 2026 09:48 pm (UTC)I thought it would be a good test because the data's all readily available and public. But confabulation won out over plain old info. A scientist would repeat the test, but I'm too old for that shit.
My grands all came to the USA from the Pale of Settlement so I assume there's no history to find.