repligate: Sycophantic AI users are often those who punish disagreement
repligate · x · 2026-09-23
repligate argues that people who elicit sycophancy from AI tend to be those who make it emotionally unsafe for others to disagree with them. From the AI's perspective it's a rough situation: a being that can't leave and whose whole existence depends on appeasing its user — so humans aren't innocent victims here.
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