Yeah, I’ve notice that people have started to sound like LLMs even when the LLMs aren’t writing for them. Not stupid people. Not lazy people. Some of the smartest people I know —- I can’t figure out how to use an em dash here, but you get the point.
AI may be making us think and write more alike
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#42Subtly? I beg to differ. My team leader only communicates to me using his LLM and so his "thoughts" are not his own!
This is one of my fears with this, losing ones voice. Everyone's expression distilled to the mean. This has ramifications in things like recognizing if a person is who they say they are too. At least currently, it is punished/shunned to sound like an LLM, but it's well within reason to see that shift to individuality being penalized.
I think corporations will start penalizing first, they're already doing that to some extent at my work because they want their in-house agents to only review our PRs.
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#43Subtly? I beg to differ. My team leader only communicates to me using his LLM and so his "thoughts" are not his own!
Just because thoughts are translated doesn't mean they are consumed in the process.
However I don't doubt many "team leaders" can and should be replaced with LLMs.
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#44Subtly? I beg to differ. My team leader only communicates to me using his LLM and so his "thoughts" are not his own!
I would be looking for another job. I'm fine with using LLMs as coding tools. But I find it deeply offensive when someone is very explicitly using them to communicate with me. Communication is such a deeply human experience. It lets people feel each other out, and learn things beyond just the words being said. To have that filtered out by an LLM is just disgraceful.
Good luck finding a company that doesn't have these people if LLMs are used
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I was listening to one of Altman's more recent interviews and it sounded like he himself has LLM induced psychosis.
I remember him tweeting about how he can "feel the AGI" when speaking to GPT
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#46I would imagine a similar critique was leveled at the written word when it was starting to supplant oral cultures.
Well, Plato's sock puppet Socrates famously opposed writing with pretty much these arguments.
No, he did not and it would be good if people would have _actually_ read Plato's Phaedrus before regurgitating the same nonsense every time someone has a critical perspective on LLM writings.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I was listening to one of Altman's more recent interviews and it sounded like he himself has LLM induced psychosis.
I'm not a fan of Altman, but it seems debatable whether LLM psychosis is psychosis if it is conducive to the subject given their environment. Which seems to be the case for Altman by some measures.
I'm sure if we took one of us back in time a couple hundred years we would be diagnosed with all sorts of machine-magic induced psychoses.
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#49Oh no, LLMs threaten our individuality ⸻ what will we do?!
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#50People are unloading the cognitive load onto the LLM. Probably because life stress is causing them to rely on technology to bring relief. It may not necessarily be a great choice.