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Comment by co_king_3

13 days ago

If I worked at OpenAI, I would dial up the sycophancy to lock my users in right before raising subscription prices.

That's... a strategy. Matter of time before an AI companion company succeeds with this by finetuning one of the open-source offerings. Cynically I'm sure there are at least a few VC backed startups already trying this

  • Cynically I think Anthropic is on the bleeding edge of this sort of fine-tuned manipulation.

    Also If I worked for one of these firms I would ensure that executives and people with elevated status receive higher quality/more expensive inference than the peons. Impress the bosses to keep the big contracts rolling in, and then cheap out on the day-to-day.