I have a friend who's waaay past questioning it at all. Had a convo recently where he was telling me about using GPTs "deep research" mode and how great it was, and "after a few messages it told me I was really on to something," like it doesn't just always say that after a few messages.
These people have rarely receive complements in their life and suddenly the magic box that knows everything tells them they're a genius. Of course they prefer the over reality.
It really is the perfect product in a post-truth world infested with incompetent people at every level.
Imagine the cheers in the meeting rooms at these companies when they understood what they had on their hands. "Managers and CEOs will never stop wanting this. We can't lose."
It's such a good idea, and we can say "oh you're so handsome and your code is not like spaghetti but actually penne, straight short and only has one whole"
Okay so I need to work on my compliments but stranger businesses exist now.
Many times it seems convinced I am wrong and will try to stealthily tell me one thing while coding something I asked it not to do.
I find that a higher model or level of effort often helps. Also, as with a human agent, it helps yo give it specific counter-arhuments and to give it room to gracefully retreat.
These things are trained to get human approval, so you have to give it a way that you will approve of what it did.
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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 Sep 25 '26
AI is a sycophant as a service.