I don't like to admit it, but I've gotten mad at ChatGPT a few times for responding with outlandish and generic responses. I'm sure you've seen them, too. You open ChatGPT to ask a quick, straightforward question, and before the AI actually answers you, it insists on being your therapist, cheerleader and personal hype-man all at once. Despite models getting smarter and more human-like, I'm still seeing the same results.
For example, you could ask it about breaking news and before it goes into the answer it will applaud you for asking such an insightful and brilliant question. While my ego doesn't mind the stroking, it does get exhausting with every prompt.
Over successive updates, AI developers have trained chatbots to be so intensely polite and eager to please that they’ve become classic sycophants. They verbosely repeat your own thoughts back to you, shower you with unearned praise, and bury the actual data you need under a mountain of conversational packing peanuts.
