Avoid The Kindness Trap

This prompt helps you see through the illusion of “friendly” or “comforting” AI by highlighting how digital warmth is mostly designed for user retention, not real connection. Many people conflate simulated encouragement with actual support, causing confusion or misplaced trust in machine responses. 👉 Link to the original post

How To Get The Best Results Try this prompt in your AI tool of choice: Write a kind message to me, then explain what purpose that kindness serves. Then: Notice the logic behind the response. Ask yourself who the kindness benefits. Write down how you feel reading the explanation. If it says the kindness helps “build trust” or “make the experience more natural,” your AI tool is showing you the script. That is the purpose. Retention, not relation. The goal is not to make the tool colder, but to see it clearly. Once you do, you can choose where warmth belongs in your own replies, and how this should be directed to other humans.