a flatterer; a sycophant; someone who only tries to be really nice because they think they are going to get something from it
The New Yorker
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Peter Navarro’s aggressive sycophancy in Donald Trump’s first term foretold how everyone around the President would behave in the second, Ian Parker writes. Navarro is the template for the Administration’s obsequious officials. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/peter-navarro-profile
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Rory Blank
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If we are taking ai media enthusiasts at face value, that they genuinely believe what they’re doing is revolutionary, visionary work, I think it needs to be considered a manifestation of AI psychosis, the same phenomenon where the obsequious bots convince someone they’ve invented new math
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@dkbohdi.bsky.social
The obsequious nature of LLMs is a safety feature.
Just like in real life, when someone talks like that, they are telling you what you want to hear, but they'll only make something up if they have to.
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