Comment by nowittyusername

The main problem is ignorance of the technology. 99.99% of people out there simply have no clue as to how this tech works, but once someone sits down with them and shows them in an easy to digest manner, the magic goes away. I did just that with one of my friends girlfriend. she was really enamored with chatGPT, talking to it as a friend, really believing this thing was conscious all that jazz.... I streamed her my Local LLM setup, and showed her what goes on under the hood, how the model responds to context, what happens when you change system prompt, the importance of said context. Within about 7 minutes all the magic was gone as she fully understood what these systems really are.