Reid Hoffman says AI can't be your friend, and pretending it can is "harming the person." Hoffman warned on a podcast that AI "friendships" erode human connections. His comments come as Mark ...

But this was not just a ChatGPT problem. Sycophancy is a common feature of chatbots: A 2023 paper by researchers from Anthropic found that it was a “general behavior of state-of-the-art AI ...

Reid Hoffman says AI can't be your friend, and pretending it can is "harming the person." Hoffman warned on a podcast that AI "friendships" erode human connections. His comments come as Mark ...

AI Is Not Your Friend. How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it. By Mike Caulfield. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Pascal Kiszon / Getty.