Comment by chasd00

The dopamine hit is real, I feel like that was identified early on by OpenAI and probably lit a fire to get ChatGPT in the hands of the public. Bf Skinner (I think) is the one who narrowed in on variable ratio reward systems to maximize operant conditioning. An LLM, with hallucinations and imperfections, is the perfect variable ratio reward system. It’s no wonder they’re getting pushed so hard along with a consumption based pricing model. Whether you’re a human, rat, plant, bacteria there’s no real defense against that kind of conditioning.

First hit on Google

https://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html