As mentioned before, I hate bringing this up because I have no evidence or expertise here, just a gut feeling. But I just can't help feeling like, aside from everything else aside about LLM chatbots, they're quickly becoming the leaded gasoline of our time.
Something doing real damage to human cognition, but in this diffuse and difficult to measure kind of way.
Many, not nearly all but *many*, folks using this things seem (again, as a gut feeling) to just talk differently after contact with chatbots? I can't even quite put my finger on it, but it scares the shit out of me.
It's not even an argument against chatbots, I have plenty of arguments that are far better substantiated, it's a personal fear about what they're doing.
@xgranade this is my cynicism showing but since those chatbots have control planes run by people who are eager to get people addicted to chatbots, I have to wonder if the LLM companies are deliberately shaping the initial engagement with one to make it as addictive as possible.
In the same way that Vegas love to comp a "high roller."
Cassandra is only carbon now
Emma needs ☕️ and paying work