Let me flip things on their head for a moment.

I love AI sycophancy!

Why?

Because it’s so OBVIOUSLY not at all like us moody, unpredictable, up-and-down humans.

I use it and hear the WarGames WOPPR voice: “Shall we play a game?”

Of COURSE some people – for fun, or alas for weaker reasons – embrace the always-supportive unreality of an uber-friendly chatbot. There are risks, as there are in all things.

So others hate it from the get-go, for much the same reasons, and a fear of what negatives could arise.

But I do believe I represent many of us who can easily bring two-level thinking to the 100% complimentary chatbot.

Knowing at the back AND front of our minds that it’s not really human.

Who would ever be that nearly insufferably NICE all the time?

No one!

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