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"As with all commercially marketed digital applications, economic viability depends on user engagement; the longer Facebook can keep its users’ faces glued to the slop doled out by the algorithm, the more ad bucks.

Thus it is with AI chatbots, which have been designed to exhibit “sycophancy” — the combined programmed traits of agreeability and flattery that keep the user engaged by inflating his ego.

In this case, it led our unfortunate protagonist to believe he had invented a theory worth millions of dollars and that he needed to contact the NSA — plus everyone he knew in his professional contacts list — to warn them that he had discovered a massive cybersecurity vulnerability that put the world at existential risk."