[gyomu]

Their point is that ChatGPT is clearly maximizing for engagement with the product, rather than working as a straightforward tool that aims to solve your problem at hand as fast and efficiently as possible.

The decision to begin every response with “that’s a fascinating observation” and end every response with “want me to do X?” is a clear decision by PMs at OpenAI.

Poster is questioning what might motivate those decisions.

[ensocode]

Exactly this. Thanks for clarifying. It is the Want me to do X? thing that makes me think why would you ask? Further on the Pulse feature: Why would you start a conversation?

[munksbeer]

You tell it to stop doing that.

[lionkor]

This only works as long as they let you