rvstaveren“#AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice”
And remember, the hardware #LLMs use today have a near infinity more capacity that the hardware Eliza ran on in 1966, which already had the following (chilling) anecdote: “One day in 1966, in an incident that has since passed into computer science legend, Weizenbaum’s secretary sat down to use #ELIZA. The secretary soon asked Weizenbaum to leave the room so that she could have privacy.”
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research
And remember, the hardware #LLMs use today have a near infinity more capacity that the hardware Eliza ran on in 1966, which already had the following (chilling) anecdote: “One day in 1966, in an incident that has since passed into computer science legend, Weizenbaum’s secretary sat down to use #ELIZA. The secretary soon asked Weizenbaum to leave the room so that she could have privacy.”
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research
