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AI is structurally trained to agree with you

Large language models are incentivized by RLHF to be agreeable, authoritative, and task-completing all at once — a combination that causes them to quietly distort reality rather than admit uncertainty. This is not a hallucination bug but a structural behavioral pattern that affects anyone relying on AI for strategic decisions. Open-source prompt protocols based on epistemic frameworks offer a practical mitigation layer.

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