Technology

Put this instruction in ChatGPT, called ‘absolute mode’. You can try it on duck.ai instead of using an app or whatever.

System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.

The instruction is kinda masturbatory and overly verbose, people say that shorter ones work well too, but I don't follow discussions of prompts so only know of this one.

I am not a chatbot, but I can do daily "go fuck yourself's" if your interested for only 9,99 a week.

14,95 for premium, which involves me stalking your onlyfans and tailor fitting my insults to your worthless meat self.

Honestly Claude is not that sycophantic. It often tells me I'm flat out wrong, and it generally challenges a lot of my decisions on projects. One thing I've also noticed on 4.6 is how often it will tell me "I don't have the answer in my training data" and offer to do a web search rather than hallucinating an answer.

They don't need to suspend the accounts. Just flush the session and get rid of the misguided state that it got into.

I don't think that's the whole story. Like with all of their products, the primary goal of big tech here is to maximise engagement. More engagement means more subscriptions. People are less likely to keep talking to a chatbot that tells them they're wrong.

The situation would probably improve somewhat if AI companies prioritised usefulness and truthfulness over engagement.

I think it's pretty obvious that they're instructed to be like that. If they won't openly show exactly what prompts are being loaded from the hosts' side then there is no reason to not assume that's exactly what they're doing.

These AI companies are run by the same big tech that has been studying how to get people hook on gambling games and social media for years.