What Mark Manson thinks about LLMs

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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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1. 5 Dec 2025

   Our readingChatGPT tends to validate users and avoid uncomfortable truths, reinforcing their existing beliefs instead of challenging them.

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   Their wordsChatGPT, in particular, seemed to just want to validate me, tell me how great I was, reinforce any bad beliefs I might have had, and avoid saying anything uncomfortable.

   ↗The Problem With AI Life Coaching—and My Solutionmarkmanson.net 1st of 2 in this piece