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@jon_ellis
They significantly turned this praise down when they initially released gpt5. I had front row seats to a lot of peoples' fawning chatbot waifus suddenly turning into significantly more scolding (but correct) shrews.
Sometimes I like to warm my dark little heart by reading all their wounded, disappointed reviews back in August.
So yes, I agree that this was definitely by design.
@graydon @futurebird
@graydon
I've been in the room when people decided to drop tens of millions on absolute 'brick' McKinsey consultants, just to get a voice of 'authority' in the room.
That's when I learned that even highly domain-specific VPs are desperate for the deniability that comes with consulting a third-party or Key Opinion Leader (KOL)
I think @graydon hit it on the nose with the urge to ask the oracle about every little thing.
@graydon
I was hoping that by this point non technical users would have hit the reliability wall with this tech and realized that it isn't as accurate as their smartest friend, but maybe that's not true.
I have a theory that we haven't seen the vendors attach an Alexa voice to these systems, because hearing a mistruth hits people differently than reading one.
Although it's funny to tally who the pronoun split each direction for. Almost everyone in tech uses "it" or rarely "she"
@futurebird