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Looking forward to mobilephonedeathcount.com and computernetworkingdeathcount.com because most of them accessed the LLM through those technologies. This is an incredibly manipulative propaganda piece that seeks to blame companies for mental health issues of the user. We don't blame any other forms of media that pretend to interact with the user for consumer's suicides.
What a distasteful and devious project.
LLMs are an interesting, useful technology. The "chatbot" format is a cognitive hazard, and places users in a funhouse mirror maze reflecting back all sorts of mental and conceptual distortions.
If they were developed to actually tell people the truth, rather than simply be a sycophant, things might be different. But as Pilate said all those years ago "what is truth".
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This is an issue of content, not transmission technology. Have you read the transcripts of any of these chats? It's horrifying.
>Have you read the transcripts of any of these chats? It's horrifying. Most LLMs reflect the user's attitudes and frequently hallucinate. Everybody knows this. If people misuse LLMs and treat them as a source of truth and rationality, that is not the fault of the providers.
Do you expect a mentally troubled 13 year old to see past the marketing and understand how these things actually work?
What a distasteful and devious project.
What a distasteful and devious project.
If a new technology is directly or indirectly involved in people's deaths, we can't just ignore the problems. Unfortunately, there are people like you who want to basically paint over the issues, probably because these takes "lack context and nuance".
How anti-intellectual of you.
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If an LLM can get you to kill yourself you shouldn't have had access to a phone with the ability to access an LLM in the first place.
I'd invite you to step away, pause, and think about this subject for a bit. There are many shades of grey to human existence. And plenty of people who are vulnerable but not yet suicidal. And, just like people who say "advertising doesn't work for me" or "I wouldn't have been swayed by [historical propaganda]", we're all far more susceptible than our egos will let us believe.
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>Have you read the transcripts of any of these chats? It's horrifying. Most LLMs reflect the user's attitudes and frequently hallucinate. Everybody knows this. If people misuse LLMs and treat them as a source of truth and rationality, that is not the fault of the providers.
These products are being marketed as "artificial intelligence." Do you expect a mentally troubled 13 year old to see past the marketing and understand how these things actually work?