Mastodawn

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.

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crzwdjk ✅

@jacqueline I feel like it's a cult machine, not (just) in the sense that there is a thing that can be described as a "cult of AI" but in the sense that a singular user with a singular chatbot instance can fall into a cult-like dynamic and attendant detachment from reality. The "spiral consciousness" stuff is the most obvious and extreme example but it's present in more ordinary cases too.