{"id":29766,"date":"2026-05-06T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/29766\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:56:10","slug":"no-flattery-please-claude-im-british-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/29766\/","title":{"rendered":"No flattery please, Claude: I\u2019m British | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The otherwise admirable Richard Dawkins should adjust the local settings of the chatbot or tell it to be less obsequious (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn\u2019t know it, 6 May<\/a>). Such bots are initially geared to American overenthusiasm and egregiously flattering reinforcement, but just tell them you want British attitude. They\u2019re only simulating you know.
Brian Reffin Smith
Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n

With artificial intelligence bringing \u201clarge language models\u201d into everyday use, the LLM after my name has acquired a new meaning. For 70 years I assumed that it\u00a0referred to my Cambridge\u00a0master of laws.
Trevor Lyttleton
London<\/p>\n

While AI chatbots do not have DNA, as long as flattery is hard-wired into the battery, there\u2019s every chance of winning friends and influencing people.
Austen Lynch
Garstang, Lancashire<\/p>\n

To its credit, my girls\u2019 secondary school in the 1950s did try to give us first years a bit of variety in PE lessons (Letters, 3 May<\/a>). We had country dancing each week. Unfortunately, when rebuked for my wrong steps, I protested to the teacher that I was being original. She gave me a detention.
Maggie Jones
Blackheath, London<\/p>\n

Thank you, Michael Heylings, for sharing how the use of coloured chalk was your breakthrough in teaching mathematics (Letters, 4 May<\/a>). My own breakthrough was the refreshing set of eight books, Graded Examples in Mathematics, written some 40 years ago\u00a0by\u00a0one\u00a0MR Heylings.
Patrick Jordan
Nottingham<\/p>\n

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