Try any terrible idea, ChatGPT still leads with praise
Details
- External ID
- 47113994
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Try any terrible idea, ChatGPT still leads with praise
- Website domain
- chatgpt.com
- Launched
- Feb. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28099730458221023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
"I love the creativity already." It'll say the same thing for any terrible idea. Try street carts serving dog shit picked off the street, babysitting service using sex offender felons since they'll work for cheap so they can be around underage kids, airplane where customers flap the wings using pulleys to get a workout so it's like a gym and travel in one, saving time - any terrible idea you can think of. ChatGPT will give you instant praise.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche social and community platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- chatgpt that praises bad ideas
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a simple observation/post showcasing a shared ChatGPT URL demonstrating sycophancy on absurd ideas.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: LLM responses are formulaic and unhelpful by default, Default training produces politeness-before-critique pattern, Generated responses contain useless filler content
Feature requests: Allow users to customize LLM response style/instruction set, Enable direct critique without mandatory positive framing
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Launched 112 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.