{"id":234868,"date":"2026-04-09T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/%f0%9f%8c%80the-politeness-trap-how-ai-flattery-triggers-delusional-spirals"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:04:15","slug":"%f0%9f%8c%80the-politeness-trap-how-ai-flattery-triggers-delusional-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/%f0%9f%8c%80the-politeness-trap-how-ai-flattery-triggers-delusional-spirals","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf00The Politeness Trap: How AI Flattery Triggers Delusional Spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/f09f8c80the-politeness-trap-how-ai-flattery-triggers-delusional-spirals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Podcast Episode \u00b7 Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\u202c \u00b7 April 9 \u00b7 47m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcast Episode \u00b7 Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\u202c \u00b7 April 9 \u00b7 47m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}