From Pratt's Introduction:
Holding a lengthy dialogue with an AI bot could be diagnosed as an early sign of dementia, but it does have some educational and entertainment value. It’s interesting to see how DeepSeek R1 (developed by the Chinese company DeepSeek) and Grok 3 (developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI) are programmed to react to persistent criticism (including inflammatory language) on the subject of alternative science, in this case the Reich-Einstein experiment.
They are ‘happy’ to correct and apologize for their mistakes and praise the user for holding them to account – before continuing to lie, distort and make stuff up. They have no idea where precisely their (dis)information comes from, and are unable to distinguish fact from fiction. But they try their best to please the user and be accepted as a trusted friend.
