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I didn't think LLM's sycophancy would work on me.

And yet, I've realized that a few research and brainstorming sessions with LLMs I thought were really good and insightful were just the LLM playing "yes and" improv with me, and reinforcing my beliefs, regardless whether I was right or wrong.



Two simple words

“Devils advocate”

And you get much better responses




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