Re: Life Imitates Art, Yet Again

Anybody remember the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and their
androids and other intelligent appliances with “Genuine People
Personalities”?
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“Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling
just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks
out of any program you care to run through me.”
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If only Douglas Adams had lived to see this
<https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/annoyed-chatgpt-users-complain-about-bots-relentlessly-positive-tone/>:
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    "ChatGPT is suddenly the biggest suckup I've ever met," wrote
    software engineer Craig Weiss in a widely shared tweet on Friday.
    "It literally will validate everything I say."
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I wonder if it has a “Marvin The Paranoid Android” mode ...