How many studies do researchers need to do before the threat of LLMs is taken seriously? This technology *might* have some useful niche applications, but widespread deployment will be a disaster for humanity.

This shit is an existential hazard, and not in the way the AI companies love to talk about. It's not going to take over the world like Skynet, it's a cognitohazard that turns anyone that interacts with it into an idiot.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.

Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

Psychology Today

@malcircuit People don't care about studies. They care about money and right now LLMs promise them more money.

They're wrong. They'll be proven wrong. But it'll take time and some MASSIVE failures, first.

Fortunately, if the news is to be believed, Zuckerberg is doing his hardest to destroy Meta with AI so it may come sooner than later.

@faithisleaping Yeah, I know it's all down to money. It's just infuriating.