i feel like i don't have the words to properly describe how it feels to see people who opinions i respected and valued slowly fall into ai psychosis. it's so slow and so subtle at first. "i'm just experimenting! i'm not an ai booster!"

then wait a few months, and they start explaining with the usual flawed, incoherent reasoning how actually it's all very interesting and thought-provoking, whilst pointing at an LLM that is so obviously just a reflection of their own ego.

@jacqueline I believe it is way more common than we know - something about this stuff hammers people's brains in a way that we (society) are not prepared for. And these are folks who should know better! They work with computers, they know it's just matrix multiplication in there! But knowing about it, I guess, provides to immunization to being taken in by its sycophantic mirroring language.

@greg It's a more refined form of the type of brain-hacking whose harmful characteristics we as a capitalist society have been conditioning ourselves to overlook for a very long while: advertising.

The harmful effects of sycophantic LLMs are invisible because of the same reason why nobody sees Londo's drunken dalliance in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZlo11DF_a4

@jacqueline

Londo and G'Kar-- prison break

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