Have seen people start being validated because ‘even’ ChatGPT agreed with them, that ChatGPT had the same opinion as they did. The more they get validated, the more unhinged they will go, because they get what seems to be ‘external validation’.
The internet was already kind of bad for validating people in ways they shouldn’t be validated, but the LLM text generators are making that seem tame by comparison.
In 2007 when I was ten, you’d almost certainly get laughed out of the room by other ten year olds when you said you were right because someone on club penguin agreed with you. It’s beyond me how those ten year olds are now 28 year olds that think they’re right because a text generator agreed with you.
It’s actually a bit frighening to see this.
Have seen people start being validated because ‘even’ ChatGPT agreed with them, that ChatGPT had the same opinion as they did. The more they get validated, the more unhinged they will go, because they get what seems to be ‘external validation’.
The internet was already kind of bad for validating people in ways they shouldn’t be validated, but the LLM text generators are making that seem tame by comparison.
In 2007 when I was ten, you’d almost certainly get laughed out of the room by other ten year olds when you said you were right because someone on club penguin agreed with you. It’s beyond me how those ten year olds are now 28 year olds that think they’re right because a text generator agreed with you.