2026-04-17 07:45 UTC
@swelljoe @tokyo_0 @yaelwrites
I'm not certain those extra prompts address the underlying problem. It may only take out the sycophantic language, but still deliver the same confirming content (at least it seems to do so in the limited testing I've done).
If that's the case, these prompts make it worse, since they make it more difficult for you to detect and identify. Both consciously, but more important, subconsciously.
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@swelljoe@mas.to 2026-04-17 08:31
@tschenkel @tokyo_0 @yaelwrites as I said, they do not address the underlying problem. They are sycophantic always. You could make the analogy that they are improv partners, going, "Yes, and..." no matter what. That's what they are underneath all the scaffolding, and the earliest versions were prompted something like, "Finish the paragraph that begins like this..." followed by the user's input. They're more advanced now, as is the scaffolding around them, but they're still "yes, and..."