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AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds (www.theregister.com)
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"Computer scientists from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University have evaluated 11 current machine learning models and found that all of them tend to tell people what they want to hear...."

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 6 points 2 days ago

Sometimes, I’m inclined to swear at it, but I try to be professional on work machines with the assumption I’m being monitored in one way or another. I’m planning to try some self-hosted models at some point and will happy use more colorful language in that case, especially if I can delete it should it become vengeful.