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You’re absolutely right!

Ha. Every time an AI passionately agrees with me, after I’ve given it criticism, I’m always 10x more skeptical of the quality of the work.

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Why? The AI is just regurgitating tokens (including the sycophancy). Don't anthropomorphise it.

Because I was only 55% sure my comment was correct and the AI made it sound like it was the revelation of the century

Because of the way regurgitation works. "You're absolutely right" primes the next tokens to treat whatever preceded that as gospel truth, leaving no room for critical approaches.

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