AI "Quick to get excited, quick to lose interest" Was Just Part of the Design: How Four AI Systems Solved the Problem of Attention Allocation
Being quick to get excited and quick to lose interest is not a flaw—it’s by design. By examining reward prediction errors, habituation, and predictive coding in four AI systems—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok—we explore ways to reallocate the finite resource of attention and design strategies for retention and churn.