
ChatGPT has faced growing opposition for being too nice. Crying out for a tough-as-nails J. Jonah Jameson to interrogate their ideas with bullish authority, users instead got a Waylon Smithers — a yes-man who gushes over everything they do.
This penchant for “ego stroking” makes it impossible to get real feedback, naysayers claim, rendering the chatbot useless at challenging their assumptions or troubleshooting.