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Humans do this too though. I have close friends that ask for advice. Sometimes if I know there’s risk in touchy subjects I will preface with “do you want my actual advice, or just looking for a sounding board”

I’ve seen firsthand people have lost friends over honesty and telling them something they don’t want to hear.

It’s sad really. I don’t want friends that just smile to my face and are “yes-men” either.

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The difference is that SOME humans do this. As you mentioned, people have lost relationships over telling others what they didn’t want to hear.

Conflating this with how LLM chatbots behave is an incorrect equivalence, or a badly framed one.