[reliablereason]

Not sure if this is a general trend amongst att LLMS but ChatGPT did over time become more and more affirming with its iterations.

I just recently switched away from the OpenAI garden largely because of it.

I do wonder if this was caused by some quirk of the training or if it really tests as a positive feature for most people. When i talk about stuff i don't want a mirror i already have a mirror. I want to be questioned, understood, helped.

To me support if the form of affirmation has no value when coming from an LLM since you know it has not thought about what it said.

[Ciantic]

ChatGPT has style settings, you probably should set it to something else than the default. Go to your personalization settings and change base style and tone. I have set it as 'efficient' which is less cheery. I can see why attention economy would lead setting the defaults towards more 'affirming' as it keep people more engaged and coming back.

[reliablereason]

I had it on professional, maybe efficient is better.

Um right if they have retention as a training metric that would probably explain allot as to why AIs get worse.