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 One guess I have is that once you spend enough time with a perfect sycophant, it may become really hard to listen to a person disagree with you, not just in a "I don't want to hear this" way, but also just in terms of processing what they're saying. The same goes for any challenging material, not just disagreements, if the sycophant can translate it into something you want to hear instead. It *sounds like* a great summary, problem solved.
But I avoid AI boosters so maybe I'm wrong.
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