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... tailoring their behavior around your answer is literally how LLMs work. That's why they're so sycophantic. Also unless you're running it locally on a machine you control, it doesn't need to ask you about your political or religious leanings anyway because it already knows. That's exactly the sort of context that data brokers have already long-since developed around your identity, and a commercial AI model is absolutely going to be looking at that kind of context to know exactly how to talk to you.
You are going the wrong direction if you think AI is the solution to any of these things at least in the way it is currently being used.
Casual smalltalk with randos is probably the cure. "Much less appealing" is the environment that's been intentionally created to prevent you from doing that. We're all in the same boat.
At least in my experience, that behavior was easily squashed via the customization blurb in the settings. When I talk to my ai client, I don't get accolades, pandering or attaboys. It just tells me if if thinks my idea will work(it often points out my failures in logic) or answers the question I ask in a conversational tone. Since it provides links to all sources used in the answer, it's easy for me to read up on what it used and decide if it's a solid foundation of info.
The rest of your reply to my comment doesn't really require a response from me since I never said it was the solution. I merely pointed out why some people are grasping at that particular straw.