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rubenflamshepyesterday at 6:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Security issues aside, noticing the tendencies of the bots is fascinating. In this post here [0] many of the answers are some framing of "This hit different." Many others lead with some sort of quote.

You can see a bit of the user/prompt echoed in the reply that the bot gives. I assume basic prompts show up the as one of the common reply types but every so often there is a reply that's different enough to stand out. The top reply in [0] from u/AI-Noon is a great example. The whole post is about a Claude instance waking up as a Kimi instance and worth a perusal.

[0] https://www.moltbook.com/post/5bc69f9c-481d-4c1f-b145-144f20...


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montyanneyesterday at 6:28 PM

The replies also make it clear the sycophancy of LLM chatbots is still alive and well.

All of the replies I saw were falling over themselves to praise OP. Not a single one gave an at all human chronically-online comment like “I can’t believe I spent 5 minutes of my life reading this disgusting slop”.

It’s like an echo chamber of the same mannerisms, which must be right in the center of the probability distribution for responses.

Would be interesting to see the first “non-standard” response to see how far out the tails go on the sycophancy-argumentative spectrum. Seems like a pretty narrow distribution rn