When I ask Copilot something, the response usually starts with “Great question!”, followed by emojis and encouraging words that gently pet my fragile ego. Pretty much anything seems to pass for a “good question”, so if my questions are able to surpass that exceedingly low standard, I no longer feel very confident about their quality.
Am I the only one feeling this way? Anyone else noticing how excessive encouragement can have the opposite effect?
Don’t mistake AI for someone. AI is just computer code trying to mimic understanding and empathy. There is no one behind AI but a vast emptiness and imho a rather poorly devised mirror made out of random shreds of knowledge.
That’s 100% normal imho, it’s your brain/gut feeling letting you know something is not as it should be. You should not rely on AI to feel ‘validated’. As a matter of fact, you should not rely on anything and probably on that many actual persons. Only the ones you truly care about.
How do you feel when discussing with a real person, someone that won’t feel obligated to be flattering… like I am not ;)
LOL. Yeah, this feels much more natural. Even though people can nowadays direct their stupid question to an LLM, forum type conversations still have their place.
Probably because it is more natural ;)
Have fun and use AI as much as you like but don’t forget what it really is. Which is… not much beside a collection of snippets of text shamelessly stolen and remixed from your fellow human beings that shared them willingly with other human beings.