No flattery please, Claude: I’m British | Brief letters

‘Bots are initially geared to American overenthusiasm and egregiously flattering reinforcement.’ Photograph: Koshiro K/ShutterstockView image in fullscreen‘Bots are initially geared to American overenthusiasm and egregiously flattering reinforcement.’ Photograph: Koshiro K/ShutterstockLettersNo flattery please, Claude: I’m BritishRichard Dawkins and chatbots | LLM meaning | Flattery battery | Dancing in PE | Maths breakthroughThe otherwise admirable Richard Dawkins should adjust the local settings of the chatbot or tell it to be less obsequious (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it, 6 May). Such bots are initially geared to American overenthusiasm and egregiously flattering reinforcement, but just tell them you want British attitude. They’re only simulating you know.Brian Reffin SmithBerlin, Germany With artificial intelligence bringing “large language models” into everyday use, the LLM after my name has acquired a new meaning. For 70 years I assumed that it referred to my Cambridge master of laws.Trevor LyttletonLondon While AI chatbots do not have DNA, as long as flattery is hard-wired into the battery, there’s every chance of winning friends and influencing people.Austen LynchGarstang, Lancashire To its credit, my girls’ secondary school in the 1950s did try to give us first years a bit of variety in PE lessons (Letters, 3 May). We had country dancing each week. Unfortunately, when rebuked for my wrong steps, I protested to the teacher t...