Comment by ulrikrasmussen

> If you think of ChatGPT as capable of being an automated Jim Jones, I think the danger becomes more clear. These tools are not incapable of being dangerous.

Thinking back on the documentaries about NXIVM, personas like Keith Raniere also seem eerily similar to LLMs in the sense that you can give them any prompt on the spot, and they will start generating long speeches which are essentially bullshit but on the surface seem coherent or even deep.