100%, it reminds me of this post I saw yesterday about how chatgpt confirmed "in its own words" it is a CIA/FBI honeypot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MKUltra/comments/1mo8whi/chatgpt_ad...

When talking to an LLM you're basically talking to yourself, that's amazing if you're a knowledgeable dev working on a dev task, not so much if you're mentally ill person "investigating" conspiracy theories.

That's why HNers and tech people in general overestimate the positive impact of LLMs while completely ignoring the negative sides... they can't even imagine half of the ways people use these tools in real life.

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bluefirebrand 5 days ago | parent [-]

I find this really sad actually

Is it really so difficult to imagine how people will use (or misuse) tools you build? Are HNers or tech people in general just very idealistic and naive?

Maybe I'm the problem though. Maybe I'm a bad person that is always imagining how many bad ways I would abuse any kind of system or power that I can, even though I don't have any actual intention to actually abuse systems

	▲	lm28469 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Are HNers or tech people in general just very idealistic and naive? Most of us are terminally online and/or in a set of concentric bubbles that makes us completely oblivious to most of the real world. You know the quote about "If the only tool you have is a hammer, ..." it's the same thing here for software.
	▲	Wojtkie 5 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's the false consensus effect.
	▲	assword 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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