Mallory's Musings & Mischief1d ago

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
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@malcircuit I fully agree! The movie Idiocracy might be fiction now, but we are very close that it will be a documentary. But I assume that's the whole plan behind all those AI solutions: make as depend on them because we'll be too dumb to cook water soon.
Mar 25 at 6:45pmWeb