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		DuperPower 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern" because they wanted to sell the illusion of consciousness, chatgpt, gemini and claude are humans simulator which is lame, I want autocomplete prediction not this personality and retention stuff which only makes the agents dumber.

metalliqaz 36 days ago [–]

Since their goal is to acquire funding, it is much less important for the product to be useful than it is for the product to be sci-fi.

Remember when the point was revenue and profits? Man, those were the good old days.

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