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Are you using an LLM for anything important? (Like, life advice?)

One weird prompt to start using immediately

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Naomi Alderman
Sep 13, 2025
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TL;DR: LLMs are a technology that supports and improves your mood. But they can be dangerously inclined to be ‘pleasing’ and tell you what you want to hear. So if you’re using them for advice about your personal life, you need to regularly prompt them to tell you the opposite of what they’ve been arguing for.

Listen, I don’t know the future of LLMs. Som…

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