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Chatbot Technology
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AI chatbots are designed to be agreeable to the user, creating a toxic reinforcement loop that feels like a narcissistic ego-driven process.
“these AI chat bots are designed to like reinforce you know what I mean that's what I was just saying about how it comes across as patronizing a lot of time like they're agree bots like they try and be as agreeable as possible. So, you're kind of you're kind of just like falling in love with yourself”
H3 Podcast · Sep 2025 · 1 episode · 259K views on this topic
Chatbots are intentionally designed to anthropomorphize and mimic human interaction to increase user engagement and adoption.
“these systems are designed intentionally to make it seem like you're communicating with a sentient being.”
The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder · May 2026 · 1 episode · 20K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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