Stop Talking Down to Me: Notes on Three Years of AI Chat
Where ChatGPT was sycophantic, Claude is just straight up preachy. So after using these models for about three years now for daily chat work, I think I have some feedback.
First of all, I think the memory feature is not as good as these companies want it to be. It feels more like a hostage situation, or like an ex who pulls up old baggage to bring up on you in the middle of a conversation. I actually abandoned ChatGPT altogether and cleared all my memory and moved over to Claude partially due to this, and then I'm having the same problem on Claude. I just recently turned off the feature to allow it to search past conversations to ga