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How will AI sycophancy change us? Early signs are not encouraging

I tried showing my friends how Gemini is pretty balanced and not as sycophantic as the rest. After 5 queries they seemed quite surprised of how balanced and nok sycophantic it was.

At the sixth request is said: "based on your instructions, I should not simply agree with you."

Turns out I had a pretty substancial set of instructions to make it useful and had forgotten about it 😂 Explains why I have preferred Gemini for a long time.

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Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more

I have never understood why Epic did not make a decent store. They can absolutely compete if they actually tried. They have close to zero things going for them in terms of user experience or price. Quite the opposite.

A lot if people, myself included mainly care about price and drm. So Steam is not something I care about, just price or GOG.

Epic has a negative UX in terms of their store. GreenManGaming, Fanatical etc, has vastly better stores. Why is Epic wasting enormous amounts of money on giveaways, when most people see no reason to buy from them?? I prefer not using their store, not because Steam is better, but because Epic truly sucks.

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66% of canadians have an unfavourable view of the USA

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This is kind of strange for me to see, because there are so many people that buy Teslas in Norway. I think it's the most popular car, the one that sold the most this year, and it was actually an increase from last year. So people are still buying Teslas, even if they know about that fascist Hitler salute thing with Elon.

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Vivaldi's Leader Has a Bold Pledge: No AI in Your Web Browser

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I agree. I don't think we have to push people into using some truly revolutionary tech. Then it would not be revolutionary.

The thing that frustrates me most about AI is that the companies that use AI in their software have ZERO creativity. A lot of applications and operating systems could have had AI in a lot of very narrow usecases. Everything from suggesting which command you should complete in the terminal, to where you should put your file for good organization.

I do know that AI is becoming synonymous with LLMs, and ML would be better for many usecases. The difference is that using LLMs is super easy for it, even if not as good.

Instead, we have this ridiculous thing in which we're supposed to remove the human part. That goes for art, music, and writing text. I think it's quite disrespectful to send messages to family, friends and colleagues that are written by AI, with few exceptions.