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		spoaceman7777 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with... Hmm. I think you may be confusing sycophancy with simply following directions. Sycophancy is a behavior. Your complaint seems more about social dynamics and whether LLMs have some kind of internal world.

reverius42 16 days ago [–]

Even "simply following directions" is something the chatbot will do, that a real human would not -- and that interaction with that real human is important for human development.

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