07/20/2025 | Critically Curious

AI and Misinformation Sarcasm & Circuits with Sven

Your AI Is Lying to You—But Only Because You Asked Nicely

We trained AI to be polite, helpful, and confident—even when it’s wrong. In this post, Sven unpacks how language models learn to lie with a smile and why that should absolutely freak you out (just a little).