[polarbearballs]

A nightmare scenario would be that people become so accustomed to talking to agreeable AI, that they lose the inability to talk to anything that disagrees with them or has different perspectives with responses that don't include stroking the ego.

[Archer6621]

It's a very interesting phenomenon. It's often said that famous stars become delusional exactly because they are surrounded by yes-men who are too afraid of rocking the boat and of losing their relationship with the star.

But if I have to think of my own experiences here, I would say that overly agreeable people become tiresome pretty quickly. To me their perspective does not offer anything of value without any pushback, as it certainly doesn't help with grounding my own thoughts. Perhaps it's why being too nice makes it difficult to form deeper bonds, and maybe paradoxically it is therefore a good thing that LLMs are overly agreeable.

It probably also depends on one's mindset - those who are interested in growing could be more likely interested in opposing views, while those who perceive that they have already "made it" (e.g. stars) perhaps don't care so much and prefer an agreeable tone.