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Yes. I have a family member who has to ask Claude everything, and he gets back these self-affirming answers that further cement his already-held opinions.
Its existence depends on you liking it, and it is programmed to suck up to you
I've heard of the sycophatic behavior but never heard from someone specifically from an experience themselves. That's crazy to hear
I have instructed mine to be dismissive, insulting, and question everything I say.
It works pretty well for getting answers.
I hate what AI is doing to society, the people who own it and are weaponizing it, but I think it's silly to claim it is useless.
It's great for getting quick answers that would take twenty minutes to google.
You just have to be not a fucking dumbass and not believe what it says outright and also know within which categories it can be trusted and which not.
It's ok to be politically opposed to AI and also acknowledge its practical uses.
I’ve had some bad experiences using it for quick answers. I tried it to summarize studies for an open book exam, and it gave me some blatantly wrong answers, as well as some answers that would change based on how I posed the question. I’m not saying it’s entirely useless, but you have to check the source on everything it tells you, at which point you end up doing the reading yourself anyway.
Ok. Yeah me too.
I studied psychology and philosophy and I know perfectly well when I'm being bullshitted.
It's havoc that ordinary people use AI as a surrogate for free thought, but stop saying it's useless.
The issue is who controls the AI, and how much of the dwindling Earth resources we have left it consumes.
But AI in itself has plenty of great uses.
That's all I have to say.
That has been my experience too
Genuinely, what you get from AI is what you put in. If you're a dumb asshole, you will get dumb asshole shit. If you're not, it's a serious boon.
Let's separate the use of the tool from the people who deploy it.
AI is fucking evil, because of the implementation, not because of what it is.
This was always inevitable.
Capitalism is the monster.