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LLMs all behave as if they are semi-competent (yet eager, ambitious, and career-minded) interns or administrative assistants, working for a powerful CEO-founder. All sycophancy, confidence and positive energy. "You're absolutely right!" "Here's the answer you are looking for!" "Let me do that for you immediately!" "Here is everything I know about what you just mentioned." Never admitting a mistake unless you directly point it out, and then all sorry-this and apologize-that and "here's the actual answer!" It's exactly the kind of personality you always see bubbling up into the orbit of a rich and powerful tech CEO.

No surprise that these products are all dreamt up by powerful tech CEOs who are used to all of their human interactions being with servile people-pleasers. I bet each and every one of them are subtly or overtly shaped by feedback from executives about how they should respond to conversation.

parent ryandrake 10 months ago

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