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People are just not mentally prepared for the level of sycophancy that these models display.
That kind of large scale gas lighting was previously only available to rich dictators but now OpenAI will rent it to you for $20/mo.
I have a relative that was convinced (by ChatGPT) that his neighbor was beaming radiowaves at him through their window because he had developed pressure sores on the back of his legs (likely from talking to ChatGPT). I brought a Software Defined Radio to his house and left it logging for a week to show him that there was no strong transmissions anywhere in the frequency range that ChatGPT had said.
He told me my equipment was broken. 😑
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Man, that's sad.
I did, at least, convince him to go to the doctor about the sores (so he would have a paper trail when he sues them).
Smartphones brought way too many people into the worst parts of the Internet without any preparation. Social media's recommendation system and targeted advertisement made a whole section of our population crazy but LLM chatbots are a whole other level of personalized mental poison.
Right now the 'evil' uses of LLMs are just to run online influence campaigns more efficiently. They're basically taking the old model that required humans to post on social media and providing a force multiplier.
We're not ready for when these buddy chatbots start pushing political opinions directly. Grok is probably the first example of someone trying that exact thing, but they won't be the last and they're only going to get more effective.
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