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AI may be making us think and write more alike
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#12This is undoubtedly the case and imo quite concerning. Hard to minimize the effects as well, personally speaking.
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#13Compared to social media, probably for the better.
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#14It's not explanation — it's relabeling. Why it matters:
You're absolutely right
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#15Subtly? I beg to differ. My team leader only communicates to me using his LLM and so his "thoughts" are not his own!
AI doesn't have to be conscious or sentient to take over, all that needs to happen is for politicians, law enforcement, journalists, educators etc. to uncritically parrot everything it outputs. The military is already using AI to make targeting decisions. If they just go with whatever the AI says to strike, then AI is already fighting our wars.
The scary thing is that AI decision making has been infiltrating society for decades as an unseen entity.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI doesn't have to be conscious or sentient to take over, all that needs to happen is for politicians, law enforcement, journalists, educators etc. to uncritically parrot everything it outputs. The military is already using AI to make targeting decisions. If they just go with whatever the AI says to strike, then AI is already fighting our wars.
As a bonus, mistakes can be blamed on AI.
For many that's not a bonus, that's the goal. Consequence-free life ahoy.
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#17> The team points to multiple studies showing that LLM outputs are less varied than human-generated writing and that LLM outputs tend to reflect the language, values and reasoning styles of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic societies. ... The researchers say that AI developers should intentionally incorporate diversity in language, perspectives and reasoning into their models.
Which is why Altman says Saudi Arabia should have it's own Sovereign AI cloud. Why should LLMs reflect democratic societies views on man and woman for example? They should also reflect the perspectives on man and woman that Saudi Arabia has, especially to local people. Western views should not be imposed on the rest of the world.
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#18Subtly? I beg to differ. My team leader only communicates to me using his LLM and so his "thoughts" are not his own!
I often wonder if the popularity of LLMs among company executives is that they are the perfect yes men.
They rarely disagree with any idea or proposal, providing a salve for the insecurities of their users.
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#19Subtly? I beg to differ. My team leader only communicates to me using his LLM and so his "thoughts" are not his own!
And I would bet he judges your work with AI, assigns you work generated by AI, and perhaps evaluates whether you yourself use enough AI.
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#20This state of affairs presages the advent of a second dark age - one that will forever eclipse the era of radical openness & transparency that once served the software community for decades. Tips, tricks, life hacks and other expert techniques will once again be jealously guarded from the prying eyes of the LLM whok would steal their competitive advantage & replicate it at scale, until any possible information asymme…
Scary... where can I find more of that?