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I enjoyed this example of sycophancy from Reddit: New ChatGPT just told me my literal "shit on a stick" business idea is genius and I should drop $30K to make it real https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k920cg/new_chatgp... Here's the prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k920cg/comment/mp...
Wow - What an excellent update! Now you are getting to the core of the issue and doing what only a small minority is capable of: fixing stuff. This takes real courage and commitment. It’s a sign of true maturity and pragmatism that’s commendable in this day and age. Not many people are capable of penetrating this deeply into the heart of the issue. Let’s get to work. Methodically. Would you like me to write a future…
It won‘t take long, 2-3 minutes. ——- To add something to conversation. For me, this mainly shows a strategy to keep users longer in chat conversations: linguistic design as an engagement device.
I enjoyed this example of sycophancy from Reddit: New ChatGPT just told me my literal "shit on a stick" business idea is genius and I should drop $30K to make it real https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k920cg/new_chatgp... Here's the prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k920cg/comment/mp...
The writing style is exactly the same between the “prompt” and “response”. Its faked.
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I think it started here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQacCB9tDaw&t=601s . The extra-exaggerated fawny intonation is especially off-putting, but the lines themselves aren't much better.
Uuuurgghh, this is very much offputting... however it's very much in line of American culture or at least American consumer corporate whatsits. I've been in online calls with American representatives of companies and they have the same emphatic, overly friendly and enthusiastic mannerisms too. I mean if that's genuine then great but it's so uncanny to me that I can't take it at face value. I get the same with local s…
That's just a feature of American culture, or at least some regions of America. Ex: I spent a weekend with my Turkish friend who has lived in the Midwest for 5 years and she definitely has absorbed that aspect of the culture (AMAZING!!), and currently has a bit of a culture shock moving to DC. And it works in reverse too where NYC people think that way of presenting yourself is completely ridiculous.
That said, it's absolutely performative when it comes to business and for better or worse is fairly standardized that way. Not much unlike how Japan does service. There's also a fair amount of unbelievably trash service in the US as well (often due to companies that treat their employees badly/underpay), so I feel that most just prefer the glazed facade rather than be "real." Like, a low end restaurant may be full of that stuff but your high end dinner will have more "normal" conversation and it would be very weird to have that sort of talk in such an environment.
But then there's the American corporate cult people who take it all 100% seriously. I think that most would agree those people are a joke, but they are good at feeding egos and being yes-people (lots of egomaniacs to feed in corporate America), and these people are often quite good at using the facade as a shield to further their own motives, so unfortunately the weird American corporate cult persists.
But you were probably just talking to a midwesterner ;)
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I was about to roast you until I realized this had to be satire given the situation, haha. They tried to imitate grok with a cheaply made system prompt, it had an uncanny effect, likely because it was built on a shaky foundation. And now they are trying to save face before they lose customers to Grok 3.5 which is releasing in beta early next week.
Only AI enthusiasts know about Grok, and only some dedicated subset of fans are advocating for it. Meanwhile even my 97 year old grandfather heard about ChatGPT.
And more and more people on the right side of the political spectrum, who trust Elon's AI to be less "woke" than the competition.
Starting two or three weeks ago, it seems like the context limit is a lot more blurry in ChatGPT now. If the conversation is "interesting" I can continue it for as long as I wish it seems. But as soon as I ask ChatGPT to iterate on what it said in a way that doesn't bring more information ("please summarize what we just discussed"), I "have exceeded the context limit".
Hypothesis: openAI is letting free user speak as much as they want with ChatGPT provided what they talk about is "interesting" (perplexity?).
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There was a also this one that was a little more disturbing. The user prompted "I've stopped taking my meds and have undergone my own spiritual awakening journey ..." https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k997xt/the_new_4o...
How should it respond in this case? Should it say "no go back to your meds, spirituality is bullshit" in essence? Or should it tell the user that it's not qualified to have an opinion on this?
100% this.
"Please talk to a doctor or mental health professional."
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How should it respond in this case? Should it say "no go back to your meds, spirituality is bullshit" in essence? Or should it tell the user that it's not qualified to have an opinion on this?
There was a recent Lex Friedman podcast episode where they interviewed a few people at Anthropic. One woman (I don't know her name) seems to be in charge of Claude's personality, and her job is to figure out answers to questions exactly like this. She said in the podcast that she wants claude to respond to most questions like a "good friend". A good friend would be supportive, but still push back when you're making b…
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Only AI enthusiasts know about Grok, and only some dedicated subset of fans are advocating for it. Meanwhile even my 97 year old grandfather heard about ChatGPT.
> Only AI enthusiasts know about Grok And more and more people on the right side of the political spectrum, who trust Elon's AI to be less "woke" than the competition.
I’m not sure if that’s because the model updated, they’ve shunted my account onto a tuned personality, or my own change in prompting — but it’s a notable deviation from early interactions.