Ai is terrible, specifically Gemini and ChatGPT are bad, they are purposely sycophantic. Gemini over the last week was tweaked to be even worse, it constantly asks for what I think about something at the end of a response. It felt off the first few times so I went and looked at my settings to see if I am feeding the data to train their model. Turns out there is no way to opt out of training, and google will always use our data to train. So they tweaked the responses to get more opinions from the users. Claude is also sycophantic but to a lesser extent.
AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
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#472> They also included 2,000 prompts based on posts from the Reddit community r/AmITheAsshole, where the consensus of Redditors was that the poster was indeed in the wrong. Sorry, anonymous people on reddit aren't a good comparison. This needs to be studied against people in real life who have a social contract of some sort, because that's what the LLM is imitating, and that's who most people would go to otherwise. Obv…
Reddit is notorious for being awful at real life interactions just look at the relationship subreddit the first answer is always divorce, it’s become a meme but beyond romantic relationships, i think a lot of us have seen how it can impact work relationships, i’ve had venture partners clearly rely on AI (robotic email responses and even SMS) and that warped their perception and made it harder to connect. It signals l…
Yes, in principle this would be a great way to get a grip on AI personal-decision-making. But there’s a nontrivial chance Claude is more emotionally intelligent than r/AITA. That is not something I enjoy saying.
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You deserve better
A very sycophantic AI style answer. Code bot equivalent being all "you are absolutely right! Here is the unequivocal fix for now and all time!"
No one would ever have made that comment before GPT. I have a feeling you could be the one that’s poisoned!
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> Sorry, anonymous people on reddit aren't a good comparison. Yeah especially on r/AmITheAsshole. Those comments never advocate for communication, forgiveness and mending things with family.
Additionally, I'm sure many posts and replies on r/AmITheAsshole are LLM-generated in the first place.
reddit in 2026 is the ghost of pandemic-era humanity.
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Oh man, I have 8 reddit accounts (AFAIK) one for each purpose so that I am not branded based on my open comments. Anyways, one of them is abandoned because ... that's where I got started at reddit about 7-10 years back. Got hooked actually to the relationship subs. Very addictive to start with. Then I tried to play the "Indian family values" where I would advocate communication and compromise for small matters, of co…
That's amazing you have more than one account, aren't a power mod, and haven't been IP banned yet.
Nope. Started my first maybe 8-10 years back, and then added the others over a year or 2. None since. I do not use them all nowadays, but I was very active in my early reddit days.
Since someone downvoted my parent comment, I am not hiding anything, this is just being safe in the modern world, and here are the 8 alts:
1. This same name - bay area / tech
2. entertainment - least used, but it becomes useful when i am watching something live. It was my place to be during game of thrones last season (and sadly so)
3. indian left politics + bollywood - pretty much unused.
4. indian right politics + bollywood. i got banned from one sub for an innocent comment, so i decided to just form personas. and maybe that's when i created health / finance / bay area accounts -- but memory fades after a long time. pretty much unused.
5. relationship advice - unused for a long time. it does not exist on my main phone, but i have all of them on my work phone so i know it exists
6. american politics. i do not participate much nowadays, with age my brain has dulled and it needs to shed load so this is used minimally, but at a point i was so active that my karma pulled me into the sweet reddit IPO. I kept only 100 shares btw
7. health - only health topics, also unused, but i go there and use that account when i need to read on a specific topic
8. finance - only investment, trading
nowadays you can hide reddit history, but earlier you could not, and my point is i do not want to 1) delete my comments, but 2) be hounded by them when i have a question about a different topic. but i did not care if people read my past 100 comments about politics when i talk about politics.
so i flip between 2-3 accounts on a daily basis, and maybe 4-5 in a good week. i have not been challenged by reddit, but if they do, i will adapt. Switching between them was much easier earlier in the Apollo days and even at reddit - they have made navigation worse for this specific use case.
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Oh man, I have 8 reddit accounts (AFAIK) one for each purpose so that I am not branded based on my open comments. Anyways, one of them is abandoned because ... that's where I got started at reddit about 7-10 years back. Got hooked actually to the relationship subs. Very addictive to start with. Then I tried to play the "Indian family values" where I would advocate communication and compromise for small matters, of co…
That's amazing you have more than one account, aren't a power mod, and haven't been IP banned yet.
You can't use IP address to ban someone without significant abuse. All home network routers put everyone in the house behind the same IP address. For all reddit knows, there are 8 people in the house using reddit.
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#478> They also included 2,000 prompts based on posts from the Reddit community r/AmITheAsshole, where the consensus of Redditors was that the poster was indeed in the wrong. Sorry, anonymous people on reddit aren't a good comparison. This needs to be studied against people in real life who have a social contract of some sort, because that's what the LLM is imitating, and that's who most people would go to otherwise. Obv…
> All you need to do ask it directly.
What do you mean? Can you give an example?
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Reddit is notorious for being awful at real life interactions just look at the relationship subreddit the first answer is always divorce, it’s become a meme but beyond romantic relationships, i think a lot of us have seen how it can impact work relationships, i’ve had venture partners clearly rely on AI (robotic email responses and even SMS) and that warped their perception and made it harder to connect. It signals l…
I always find it interesting how, in Reddit any trivial fight or even just different opinions, the advice it's always to end the relationship.
I think it is some kind of survivership bias. Who is going to give advise on reddit?
Maybe people shying away from difficult social interactions?
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#480Don't replace humans with AI, yet how many people are maintaining good close friendships in this world, with someone they can vent to without judgment? Wrongthink can end relationships now ime and venting seems dangerous in lonely times.