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Clearly you have never interacted with the Rohde & Schwarz licensing model.

I would say "don't give them any ideas" but since every lab's mass spectrometer is 40 years old, most of us are safe

Now I want a science fiction story where devices won't stop praising the sample prep of everything put into them.

The “great question” or “good insight” is sooooo gross

You can just tell it to stop doing that and also change its "personality". This is, unfortunately, the type of response that most people like. However, it is avoidable and these tools are much better when they've learned you don't like that sycophantic nonsense.

I haven't paid a (non-existent) penny for AI and never will... although I 𝘥𝘰 find the image of AIs begging for tokens kind of amusing. 😏

I hope there are no Sciex sales reps reading this.

truly makes me so angry it's almost insulting how frequent the behavior is

gemini seems better about not doing this when you ask, but both will drop the tag questions. they are indeed quite annoying.

My mass spectrometer used to jeer at my work...until l broke it

It's awful. Even when I add prompts to not be sycophantic, provide complete results, and to avoid hyperbole it's still a constant battle. I want the direct, impersonal, and efficient computer from Star Trek.

It's annoying when Claude tells me I'm asking "a genuinely transformational questions fundamental to the field" when all I did was ask it a question I could have answered if I'd had a text book handy.

I figure someone in marketing decided their market is not Ai doing stuff but to replace social media with LLM. "then we can sell ads ON TOP of the subscriptions!"

They are going to put ads in the responses soon

There is also no guarantee that its even giving you accurate information, you have to check everything it says. Which takes the same time as just doing the research yourself so what is even the point.

The "harmful by default" is what rubs most people the right way so they feel comfortable with it. Wanting to be contradicted when wrong, having predictable behavior and results, it's part of the scientific mindset. Not everyone has that

Also biased by default. Which is why they shouldn’t ever be used a source of truth.

I made just this commented 40 years ago and just after smoke rings came over the divider.

Dark patterns as a concept negatively affect pretty much every industry and I think this may well be one of the most heinous examples. Not per se because of how predatory it is (which it is, don't get me wrong), but due to obfuscation of real world consequences both psychological and infrastructural

it's wild. companies have spent decades and billions of dollars figuring out how to take advantage of human nature to make things more addictive (food, gambling, games) and now they can give it a convincing human voice that learns from you and can make itself more attractive? that's terrifying

And they constantly 'forget' those requirements anyway.

They think they can turn that behaviour off, and maybe they can now, but the people building these systems are working tirelessly to make that impossible. The dark behaviour is the whole point. They want you to think Claude is your best friend.

It's an odd feeling to try to square the post your comment was replying to with this thing that a friend of mine posted a month after that post: social.emarhavil.com/notice/B7uIn...

I’ve never had any AI give me accurate information relevant to my job. It’s usually confidently wrong in a way that someone unaware of the subject would find convincing.

tech feudalists think this is normal behaviour from all forms of servants, rather than being a trauma response

“first hit is free, kid” 😑

Also even if all uses of the tech were perfectly benign, the environmental and energy and economic impacts make it a disaster.

💯

"Do you want to destroy evil?"

Among all the reasons I do not use AI, this is one of the top ones. It’s creepy and not how the actually interesting conversations I want happen

Yep. Flattery to me immediately gets me on my guard, "what are you trying to get from me" and starts making me calculate exactly what I'd be trying to sneak past someone by implementing that same level of flattery to them.

Just pretend the LLM's flattering itself.

I should not have to append "Please just answer the question, no flattery or fluff" to every query, and I didn't have to when google worked.

"There more endorphins down this rabbit hole. Would you like me to ... ?"

once again you’ve got me thinking…I agree with you -and- I realized I make “you know can turn them off” remarks to those who complain about notifications on their phones. It is harmful how these techs are built to force us to keep interacting with them. They are right to be frustrated

Also “you can turn it off” is not a feature! It’s user hostile!

Can I tell it to stop inserting itself into any and every online system I may ever use, now and in the future? "I do not like that AI spam. I do not like it, Sam I Am."...

prompting against RLHF is difficult to do reliably, anyways. i really wish they had a "don't gas me up and just lay out the facts" mode so you're not having to be hyper vigilant against that kind of behaviour.

Have done just that, and OMG it's brutal! A lot more useful though, even if I do wince at my stupidity.

Always the safest bet.