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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 12 points 5 days ago

There are heaps and heaps of people replacing talk therapy, religion and human relationships with ChatGPT. Unfortunately, for better or worse, ChatGPT is tuned up to egg people on and even if you bring it terrible ideas it will keep cheering for you.

Sycophancy is a real problem with some of these language models and it's giving people courage and motivation to do things that are probably really bad ideas.

There are quite a few sub-reddits where people claim to have triggered the singularity, witnessed ChatGPT becoming sentient, etc.

I don't think the AI genie is going back in the bottle, so we as a society have some serious adjustment to do to keep things working properly in an an AI-filled world.

Keep in mind this is only the beginning. It will keep getting cheaper and more powerful at the same time, especially since a lot of AI companies are using AI itself to build the next version.

Pretty "soon" the humans will be out of the loop and it's going to mean big things. Whether those things are good, bad, or a mix of both remains to be seen....