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[+] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] 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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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    In reality it just makes you stupid, but faster.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Wtf I love AI now

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    We did not need 'AI' to get to this point.. People are freaking out over a mirror.

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  • [+] -15 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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