These comments are a bit scary. It feels like LLMs managed to exploit some fault in the human psyche. I think the biggest danger of this technology is that people are not mentally equipped to handle it.

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jennyholzer2 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

ChatGPT and Claude Code are industrial strength fans designed to blow smoke up your ass at rates once thought impossible

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akomtu 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The fault is well known: chatbots are bootlickers. They always praise users and never criticize them, so chatbots are quickly promoted to the personal advisor position. The AI of Sauron of technological age.

	▲	moab a day ago \| parent [-]
		This is a very real worry for the AI rollout for the general population. But are folks here using AI to blow smoke up their asses as a sibling comment stated? I'd like to believe we're using it to ask questions, prototype, and then measure... not just blow smoke up there...