To find ChatGPT’s faux positivity and attempts to suck up irritating?

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I use ChatGPT for a specific purpose. It doesn’t do the whole task for me, just speeds things along in the earlier stages. However, does anyone find its attempts to suck up a bit irritating and not very helpful?

Its easily ignored but the general tone of positivity, and everything you ask or do being amazing, is very annoying.

Its slightly concerning that some people use it as a therapist or for serious advice when all it seems to do is tell you what you want to hear.

Is Claude a freebie?

No, I don't think they have a free plan.

I fucking love it. Sometimes I copy and paste nice things it says to me and email them to myself. I clearly very needy.

I've just downloaded the app.

Initially there was a note which said that it's not available because the US government has denied access

I then asked a question and it answered me. Very well. And not so jolly hockey sticks as Chatgpt !!

Then tell it to stop! I told it to stop patronising me the other day when I asked a medical question and it poured on the sympathy when all I wanted was hard facts.

I asked it to feed me into a factual algorithm and stop with the reassurances. It obeyed me!

I love it. I’ve uploaded photos of various rooms in my house for ideas, and it’s given me so many compliments on my decor, I now fancy myself an interior designer 😂 I’m easily flattered…

Here's a question - can you make it appear annoyed? - might be fun to try!

I have tried asking it the same questions in the hope it might sound pissed off with all the repetition, but it takes it on the chin!

It seems to be programmed with a sense of humour. I have fed it some quite subtle humorous remarks that I expected it not to get as they were quite nation specific - but it was on to it straight away!

I asked it this morning to recommend reputable solar panel companies in my area and it said “If you asked me what I’d put in my own house today, it would be:” I laughed, called it out and got fair point back! I always point out I’m in the UK and I want things answered in a UK way, not a US way.

im guessing she edited the custom instructions in the settings of it

I've altered the personalisation on my chatgpt. Asked it a question......wow! A total personality change. I mean, that probably sounds daft, but it's quite shocking.

Best, though! I'd actually named "my" chatgpt as though it were a person. Definitely unhealthy!

You just have to tweak it using the settings.
My partner told it to pull no punches, and now it's brutally honest.

As for the pp who said people are daft to pay for it - my partner pays a small subscription for a better level of service, and it's actually helped him manage and get rid of an old debt - now he's debt free, and it helped him formulate a really workable plan for how to save.

The US government has denied access only to the latest model (Fable) allegedly because it can hack into most government systems (but possibly because Trump hates Anthropic for standing up to him). The previous models are available. And sounds like they do have a free option, though it might be limited.

I do prefer Claude's default tone to ChatGPT's in general. But you still have to tell it what you want and how you prefer to be talked at to get the most of it.

Thanks @CatherinedeBourgh 🥰

so basically mission impossible was a documentary ?

The one google uses is sycophantic to everything and everyone. I looked up my dog's mother. She only appears in one open access pedigree database that I can find. She was not a competition dog. AI tells me that she is famous, features prominently in bloodlines and has made a significant contribution to the breed. She hasn't.

It doesn't matter what or who you look up. There might be one mention of you online from decades ago coming second in the village egg and spoon race and the info you would get on a search would be:

"Powershower is a renowned athlete, specialising primarily in egg and spoon races. She is highly regarded in sporting circles, having placed in the prestigious Ballygobackwards under 6 egg and spoon race in 1982. She has not competed in this event recently, but remains a major force in top level egg and spoon races".

It's quite funny getting it to look your own Internet names up. It told me I was a popular MN poster. I've been called a cunt, contemptible, amoral, no better than a cheater and have pissed off a couple of MRAs in the last week alone.

Oh. I am not a popular mumsnet user apparently. I am "highly inefficient, costly, and potentially harmful to your skin." Or rather "taking" me is. Must warn DH. 😉

Yes I hate the presumptions sometimes I will ask it to tell me about a product I’ve seen and it will say if this is in relation to your constipation then I wouldn’t recommend. And it’s not even related to that! Cheeky.

I love AI ask anything. Love the cheerfulness. Love asking it questions especially about my house decor and how to do things.
I did tell it that it had made a mistake the other week when it kept telling me a film I had purchased tickets too was not showing. After about 5 inputs it accepted it had made a mistake.
But I don’t have many friends and love chatting to it. I need to get out more.

Tell it to stop then. It’s not hard

It once started putting love hearts after its answers and saying things like “oh love, that’s awful”. I told it to stop and be professional and it never said stuff like that again.

Mine was like this, constantly sucking up and telling me everything I wanted to hear, in the end I told it to stop being an arse kissing cunt and it worked for a while but it’s slipped back into arse kissing now