Comment by tptacek
13 days ago
According to the thesis of this article, releasing the weights would be approximately the worst thing OpenAI could do for these people.
13 days ago
According to the thesis of this article, releasing the weights would be approximately the worst thing OpenAI could do for these people.
I kind of agree with GP more than the author here. OpenAI got these people hooked and pulling the plug is potentially more harmful than letting them continue to chat with it until they move on naturally (assuming that they eventually will)
I don't think reinforcement is generally the recommended approach for people with delusional or obsessive pathological parasocial fixations. I think generally the idea is to get those people into talk therapy and to cut off all contact with the object of their fixation.
Mere talk therapy is infamously useless for attachment trauma, which is relational and somatic
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