David Gerardthis is a fantastic rant about Claude Mythos and Anthropic doing a great swan dive into the ELIZA effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcN1VTTIjQs
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Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.@davidgerard @emilymbender @timnitGebru @Dianora @pluralistic I am FED UP of people, who should know better, system prompting GPT-based generative AI systems to serve up predictive text to make them plausibly seem "conscious", presumably to game metrics, and gain the "engagement" of novice users of the technology who are not trained to spot these patterns (who are often not rooted in a computer science, cognitive science or psychology background) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcN1VTTIjQs #grandtheftautocomplete
Claude Mythos is Delusional
@davidgerard @emilymbender @timnitGebru @Dianora @pluralistic ...to fool them into personifying what are no more than machine learning algorithms (to paraphrase Cory Doctorow: "word guessing programs"). It is INFANTILE and it needs to STOP, just as the organisations which are doing this infantilise their own adult employees daily. They aren't pushing the limits of non-symbolic AI adoption. They are CREATING MENTAL ILLNESS TO FURTHER BUSINESS MODELS. #grandtheftautocomplete #genai