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The AI will be saying the same thing to everyone. Rationally, what are the chances every single OpenAI customer will be building a billion dollar startup any time soon?

But even it's more obvious than that. The sycophancy is plain old love bombing, which is a standard cult programming technique.

As for startups - let's wait until the AI has built a few of its own, or at least mentored humans successfully.



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