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Subject: [Discuss] LLMs and AI
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 19:04:29 -0500
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 18:16:53 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> 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

This. As I wrote last week, these chatbots are designed to drive what
the operators call engagement and I call addictive behavior. It's a
deliberate design decision, not an intrinsic "feature" of LLM chatbot
tech.

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