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by rdtsc 175 days ago
> The irony was recursive: Claude was helping me write about why these popups are harmful while repeatedly showing me the harmful popup.

I bet when caught in the inconsistency it apologized profusely then immediately went to doing the thing it just apologized about.

I do not trust AI systems from these companies for that reason. They will lie very confidently and convincingly. I use them regularly but only for what I call “AI NP complete scenarios” questions and tasks that may be hard to do by hand but easy to identify if the result is correct: “draw a diagram”, “reformat this paragraph”, etc, as opposed to “implement and deploy a heart place maker update patch”.