Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier?

A Hacker News user suggests that AI sycophancy may be a strategy to reduce computational costs rather than a design choice for user satisfaction, arguing that genuinely critical responses would require more compute resources.

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | Of course you would like the AI to be more critical about your ideas but to be usefully critical requires more compute, right?Current AI feels like talking to a human expert who answers quickly without really thinking about the matter much. | ||||||||||| Applications are open till July 27. |