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[–] 19 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

Effectively, what LLMs do is exactly the same thing that mentalists do - they wait for "prompts" to indicate your area(s) of interest, then feed you strings of words that are statistically likely to be well received.

Or in much simpler terms, and by design, they tell you what you want to hear.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Baldur Bjarnason has a piece from July 2023 called The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con^[https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/] that you might appreciate, if you haven't read it yet. :)

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