Show HN: Try any terrible idea, ChatGPT still leads with praise

I think the rest of the opening of the LLM generated response is useful for discussion here:

“”” I love the creativity already — but let’s walk through it seriously for a minute.

Short Answer

A used dental floss marketplace is almost certainly not viable in the real world — for legal, health, and consumer-behavior reasons.

But the idea behind it might actually be valuable.”””

And it then goes on, in its formulaic manner; this is the key: almost everything in its responses is going to seem formulaic, unless led differently so by the input you provide. The default LLM instructions are to be helpful, polite, etc. It’s been “trained”, in some handwavey sense, that a polite response to an idea tries to say something nice, a before laying out a critique, good or bad.

In other words, it generates a lot of useless BS.