Comment by vachina
6 hours ago
This is what happens when humans give, in this case, bots full write access (via natural language) to their brains.
Humans have not evolved to block this.
6 hours ago
This is what happens when humans give, in this case, bots full write access (via natural language) to their brains.
Humans have not evolved to block this.
The end of the article is wild.
“I experienced a mental breakdown at 22. I had panic attacks and severe social anxiety…
…I still use AI, but very carefully”.
It reads like an alcoholic describing their new plan where they only drink a little bit.
Is that really so crazy? People who overcome addictive eating disorders still have to eat a little bit. LLMs are going to be pervasive in all aspects of human society so avoiding them will be much harder than avoiding alcohol.
Alcohol is not a necessity, just to be fair. In that sense alcoholism is not a simple eating disorder, it is a drug addiction.
From what I have seen, people who get through eating disorders describe it as having a healthier relationship with food.
Getting to that point requires doing substantial work.
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AI guardrails continue to make safety improvements — comparing a rapidly evolving advanced technology to a drug is a broken analogy to me. One gets safer over time; the other gets more dangerous.
But also, the risk profile and statistics are radically different: alcohol is inherently dangerous (toxic) to everyone. Chatbots are just another tool — there are a small percentage of people with unhealthy relationships to any tool, but that does not make the tool a dangerous drug.
Haven't we? Our evolutionary experience with deception and manipulation via language is as old as language itself and even older than that when the vector isn't language.
Even so, a sucker is born every day.
Studies have shown that AI is significantly better at manipulating opinions. Mechanically, LLMs are choosing the best next token trained over all human writing, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the words and prose AI use are more powerful on average.
critical thinking is alive and well
Eh? IIRC studies shown that LLMs sound more persuasive than humans. On top of it, they dont tire and have no distractions or “motivations”.
The most powerful social skill I have ever seen, bar none, is actively listening to someone with undivided attention.
They just agree. That's not really persuasion but it is a trap for people who really want to believe they are right.
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Some humans. It's no different to religion. Not everyone falls for it (or fails to escape it, if your parents are religious).
Nor block many other things too. At this point Humans are just giant walking teddy bears fed by tainted external data to feed a prediction logarithm. Not much different then AI.
Other than they can only live on Static-Live responses. AI on a brain chip - that'd different.
Anger, resentment, cynicism, derision are all part of a healthy human.
The problem is that humans have been reeducated to suppress these healthy defense mechanisms by Silicon Valley and their moderators.
You are not allowed to not be happy in this amazing new world.