[superb_dev]

It doesn’t have an opinion, it’s just pretending to have an opinion. You can tell it to think something else and (in my experience) it will happily oblige and admit that it’s wrong. That’s not an opinion.

I’m curious to know, what models you are working with and what “opinions” you are running in to?

[bandrami]

It's not even "pretending"; that's still anthropomorphizing it. It's generating a stream of text that shares certain probabilistic characteristics with streams of texts it has seen in the past.

Which does make its sycophancy kind of weird, since it clearly didn't pick that up agreeability from scraping Internet message boards.

[abraxas]

Maybe it did. A lot of message boards where like minded people cluster often devolve into mutual adoration clubs.