ChatGPT is quickly approaching (perhaps bypassing?) the same concerns that parents, teachers, psychologists had with traditional social media. It's only going to get worse, but trying to stop the technological process will never work. I'm not sure what the answer is. That they're clearly optimizing for people's attention is more worrisome.

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visarga 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> That they're clearly optimizing for people's attention is more worrisome.

Running LLMs is expensive and we can swap models easily. The fight for attention is on, it acts like an evolutionary pressure on LLMs. We already had the sycophantic trend as a result of it.

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WJW 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Seems like either a huge evolutionary advantage for the people who can exploit the (sometimes hallucinating sometimes not) knowledge machine, or else a huge advantage for the people who are predisposed to avoid the attention sucking knowledge machine. The ecosystem shifted, adapt or be outcompeted.

	▲	aleph_minus_one 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Seems like either a huge evolutionary advantage for the people who can exploit the (sometimes hallucinating sometimes not) knowledge machine, or else a huge advantage for the people who are predisposed to avoid the attention sucking knowledge machine. The ecosystem shifted, adapt or be outcompeted. Rather: use your time to learn serious, deep knowledge instead of wasting your time reading (and particularly: spreading) the science-fiction stories the AI bros tell all the time. These AI bros are insanely biased since they will likely loose a lot of money if these stories turn out to be false, or likely even if people stop believing in these science-fiction fairy tales.