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It's so agreeable. If a person expresses doubts or concerns about a therapist, ChatGPT is likely to tell them they are doing a great job identifying problematic people and encourage those feelings of mistrust.
They sycophancy is something that apparent a lot of people liked (I hate it) but being an unwavering cheerleader of the user is harmful when the user wants to do harmful things.
Agreed, affirming what is clearly mental illness is terrible and shouldn’t be done.