Sunday, December 28, 2025

The Way I Like It: Bubbles and Sycophantic AI

We are all familiar with living in online bubbles. Those shields around what we see are created by websites, advertisers, and social media platforms feeding us what we already like. Products, ideas, friends, and influences, all tailored to our preferences. They claim it's about reducing noise and showing us what matters, but really, they want us coming back. Often. Very often.

Chatbots seem to have learned this trick too, dishing out sycophantic praise for you and your questions. Maybe they're hoping you'll stay in the conversation longer or treat them as a friend, overlooking little wobbles in their non-human text-only responses.

Proof reading and summary assisted by Claude Sonnet 4.5 (AI)

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