RE: https://mastodon.social/@cslinuxboy/116225578585237555

This is not “normal”. Skilled and productive people falling heads over heels over a word predictor and thinking it’s sentient is not normal. This is not the kind of effects that normal automation tools do. This is WEIRD and NOT NORMAL.

Something strange is happening here. This “tool” is modifying well-adjusted human brains in a strange (and I think destructive) way, and we’re seeing it happen to some prominent person every week. How many people are being taken in that we don’t even hear about?

#ai

@drahardja It's particularly due to LLMs' extremely sycophantic nature - mainly designed to maintain user retention over everything else.

There is a great video on YouTube covering this exact function of LLMs by Eddy Burback -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRjgNgJms3Q
ChatGPT made me delusional

YouTube
@burger This was an incredible watch.