Generative AI and LLMs will readily tell you that you are perfect as you are. The issue becomes that the AI does this excessively. People might be mentally duped.
Generative AI will readily tell you that you are perfect just the way you are, which can be encouraging, though might also be overboard.In today’s column, I describe how generative AI and large language models can go overboard in their willingness to flatter users and instill intense loyalty to using AI. This coaxing is not by accident. AI makers have tilted their AI wares to be excessively complimentary to users.
Wait for a second, the counterargument goes; people aren’t as astute that AI is just AI as you might proclaim. A mental trap is that the AI is either human-like or perhaps even superior to humans. On the superior side of things, getting compliments from AI is actually construed as more impressive than getting the same from a living, breathing person.
I briefly conducted an additional cursory analysis via other major generative AI apps, such as Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Meta Llama, and found their answers to be about the same as that of ChatGPT. I’ll focus on ChatGPT but note that the other AI apps generated roughly similar responses.
Also, observe that the AI seems to have gone overboard on heaping praise. I was expecting a subtle tone or hint of praise. The amount of attributed acclaim and commendation is truly astounding. You can see how this could significantly impact someone who is otherwise not getting upbeat approvals from those around them.Generative AI is designed to be an interactive mechanism. The idea is that you are carrying on an interactive dialogue with AI.
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