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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.
In reality it just makes you stupid, but faster.
We did not need 'AI' to get to this point.. People are freaking out over a mirror.
You can set them up so that they don't do that. It's just the companies running the chat bots set them up that way because that's what people expect now.
Pay no attention to ChatGPT, we purposely trained him wrong... as a joke.
yeah ok
"you can set the sycophancy engines so they aren't sycophancy engines"
I'll take "Shit that's Impossible" for 500, Alex
It's still telling you what you want to hear but with a different aesthetic. This will always be the case for systems that can't even perceive it's own lies.
Have you run one? Your claim sounds reasonable to me, but I haven't tried. Not sure I have the hardware unless I run a shitload in parallel. (If that's even a thing.)

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