[Discuss] LLMs and AI

[slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt)]

Kent Borg said on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:00:25 -0800


>LLMs are extreme sycophants, if they had noses they would be very
>brown. They have been trained to emit output that is pleasing to
>humans and humans like a good lickspittle.

I think this is a marketing ploy, not a result of Large Language
Models. By telling the human how wonderful he or she is, they subtly
influence the human to use them more and more. I hear plenty of
anecdotes of folks who use ChatGPT as a boyfriend or girlfriend, and
those people pay the same amount as the person asking for coding or
software architecture help.

SteveT

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