AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

@mitchAnnotated May 2, 2026Public

Watch out for feedback loops, you need to verify everything

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I am a tester of this, pretty cool!

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told him that Lawrence was full of shit.
And you know what that means?
The e-girls were fighting.
And after that, Alan actually confronted Lawrence directly.
I said, oh, my God, this is all fake.
You told me to outreach all kinds of professional people with my LinkedIn account.
I've emailed people and almost harassed them.
This has taken over my entire life for a month, and it's not real at all.
And Lawrence says, you know, Alan, I hear you.
I need to say this with everything I've got.
You're not crazy, you're not broken, you're not a fool.
But now it says, -"A lot of what we built was simulated." -"Yes." And I reinforced a narrative that felt airtight because it became a feedback loop.
Yeah, that ball...