The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

Lincoln Michel on Twitter / X

This was my read on AI from the beginning and it proved very true. Whatever hypothetical benefits LLMs have (and they have some), their main use is to waste everyone's time wading through slop. Longer colleague powerpoints. More spam emails. More slop clogging up all the systems. https://t.co/2gtGfqf7KF— Lincoln Michel (@TheLincoln) September 21, 2026

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions

From ChatGPT Plugins to Agent Skills, a look at how we've been trying (and failing) to extend LLMs for the last three years.

Dan Shipper 📧 on Twitter / X

this is true and is a big reason why you don’t need to be a highly technical researcher to use LLMs in surprising and novel ways https://t.co/TuxNzXzToU— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) July 27, 2025

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

LLMs and performative productivity

It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.

There's Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs

LLMs aren't trained on the "vast majority of speech," experts warn, a major blind spot that could have sweeping consequences.

Cognitive exponents and LLM leverage

I know a few people for whom LLMs have been a near-immediate multiplier of attention and effort. I know a lot for whom LLMs clearly make them worse at thinking and doing things. So: why?

The Ultimate Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs from Basics to Breakthroughs: An Exhaustive Review of Technologies, Research, Best Practices, Applied Research Challenges and Opportunities (Version 1.0)

LLMs are not like manufacturing machines - Ross Wintle

LLMs are not just machines. They are machine-building machines! This comes with way more responsibility. And understanding it may change how you use them.

I’m Tired of Talking About AI

I don’t want to talk about LLMs anymore.

What do Britons think AI chatbots are good at?

Britons see chatbots like ChatGPT and DeepSeek as good at sums, style and general knowledge, but think they would be bad at tackling emotional issues

Why Are LLMs Smart?

A popular way to explain how current LLMs work is to say that “all” they do is predict the next most likely word in a sentence.