I’m really bothered by the parasocial relationships some people I know have built with the output of these chatbots. Whenever I even hint at criticising the output as untrue, wrong, or just not optimal, they get very defensive and irate like I just called their mother a cunt.
“I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”
I’m really bothered by the parasocial relationships some people I know have built with the output of these chatbots. Whenever I even hint at criticising the output as untrue, wrong, or just not optimal, they get very defensive and irate like I just called their mother a cunt.
Probably easier to just cut to the chase and call their mother a cunt
I’d never. She’s a classy lady.
Honestly kinda interesting.
Apparently the way LLMs responds causes people to psychologically see it as a living being.
Back in 60s a chatbot that practically repeats what you say back to you caused the same effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
“I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”