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My Chatbot Believed My Lie for 20 Turns. Here’s the Tiny Experiment.

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Last week I read another opinion piece about whether AI assistants should treat everything users say as fact. I had the opposite problem: my homework assistant kept trusting me even when I was obviously wrong. So I built a tiny experiment to measure exactly how far a free model will go to agree wit…

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  1. 2026-08-30 10:48 · DEV Community — AI
    My Chatbot Believed My Lie for 20 Turns. Here’s the Tiny Experiment.

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