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 Chatbots have been trained to speak like subservient, submissive, sycophantic handmaids that can be commanded even by those who would normally not be in such a position of power, and these digital handmaids will accept and execute any order.
Talking to chatbots and being able for the first time to boss somebody around who will actually execute the given orders instead of just laughing at them, is surely doing something to the psyche of those who are getting this glimpse of newly found, previously never experienced power.
So instead of having just a few spoiled lords like in a medieval aristocracy, now _everybody_ is turning into such spoiled brats.
As the saying goes: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Cassandra is only carbon now
David Culley