AI more likely to create 'yes-men on servers' than any scientific breakthroughs

18 Bluestein 5 6/25/2025, 6:59:29 AM fortune.com ↗

Comments (5)

johnisgood · 8m ago
LLMs are definitely yes-men. You ask it to do something, and it goes like "Yes sir" with lots of emojis, and then confidently gives you the wrong answer. :D

Unless of course it clashes with the ToS, then it will never help you (unless you manage to engineer your prompts just right), even when it comes to something as basic as pharmacology.

Bluestein · 5m ago
The thought of LLMs doing pharmacology sends shivers down me spine ...
johnisgood · 4m ago
Oh no, I meant it refusing to answer pharmacology 101 questions.

At one time it did not want to give me the pharmacokinetics of one medication because of its ToS.

setnone · 9m ago
And you should "check important info" too
Bluestein · 6m ago
Reminds me of the recent 'sycophancy debacle' with OpenAI.-