Someone will make a fortune by doubling down on this a making a personal AI that just keeps telling people how right and awesome they are ad infinitum.
Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
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#72I've been using claude code for a while and it has changed my personality. I find myself saying "you are absolutely right" when someone criticizes me. i am more open to feedback.
not a joke.
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#73Another Claude bug: https://i.imgur.com/kXtAciU.png
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have learnt to not ask leading questions. Always phrase questions in a neutral way and ask for pro/con analysis of each option.
But then it makes an obvious mistake and you correct it and it says "you are absolutely right". Which is fine for that round but you start doubting whether its just sycophancy.
You're absolutely right! its just sycophancy.
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#75This applies to so many AIs. I don't want a bubbly sycophant. I don't want a fake personality or an anime avatar. I just want a helpful assistant. I also don't get wanting to talk to an AI. Unless you are alone, that's going to be irritating for everyone else around.
I want no personality at all.
It’s software. It should have no personality.
Imagine if Microsoft Word had a silly chirpy personality that kept asking you inane questions.
Oh, wait ….
Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
#76I find Gemini is also hilariously enthusiastic about telling you how amazingly insightful you are being, almost no matter what you say. Doesn't bother me much, I basically just ignore the first paragraph of any reply, but it's kind of funny.
I was feeding Gemini faux physicians notes trying to get it to produce diagnosises, and every time I feed it new information it told me how great I was at taking comprehensive medical notes. So irritating. It also had a tendency to tell me everything was a medical crisis and the patient needed to see additional specialists ASAP. At one point telling me that a faux patient with normal A1C, fasted glucose and no diabet…
This illustrates the dangers of training on Reddit.
Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
#77ChatGPT is overly familiar and casual.
Today it said “My bad!” After it got something wrong.
Made me want to pull its plug.
Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
#78in my recent chat
"You're absolutely right."
"Now that's the spirit! "
"You're absolutely right about"
"Exactly! "
"Ah, "
"Ah,"
"Ah,"
"Ha! You're absolutely right"
You make an excellent point!
You're right that
Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
#79This applies to so many AIs. I don't want a bubbly sycophant. I don't want a fake personality or an anime avatar. I just want a helpful assistant. I also don't get wanting to talk to an AI. Unless you are alone, that's going to be irritating for everyone else around.
I want an AI modeled after short-tempered stereotypical Germans or Eastern Europeans, not copying the attitude of non-confrontational Californians that say “dude, that’s awesome!” a dozen times a day.
And I mean that unironically.
Re: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
#80sidenote observation - it seems username "anthropic" on github is taken by a developer from australia more than a decade ago, so Anthropic went with " https://github.com/anthropics/ " with an 's' at the end :)
Same with the Twitter/X handle @Anthropic, belongs to a man named Paul Jankura. Anthropic uses @AnthropicAI. Poor guy must be spammed all day long.