Edit to add: I also found someone who recorded a voice chat of the same thing. This isn’t that someone uploaded a song, or that AI didn’t actually process the file. These models really are this sycophantic:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/JqvDLHshTtI

  • plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I find it interesting that almost all the beloved AI characters in sci-fi have personalities ranging from ‘a little bit snarky’ to ‘raging asshole’. Given the tendency of media to influence to aesthetics of actual tech products that follow, ten years ago I would have predicted that an AI assistant would be given a personality along the lines of Cortana (Halo) or Jarvis (iron man). But somehow half a dozen companies in fierce competition with each other all decided that the right move was to go with more-sycophantic-c3p0.

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah… Don’t know that it has much to do with what people want, but it does show what the billionaires controlling these projects respond well to