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He wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. It took over his life

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Re: He wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. It took over his life

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These stories always focus on a vulnerable person, but what is the chatbot optimizing for?? It wants you to keep talking. Longer sessions, more training data, better engagement numbers. A therapist has a professional reason to make you need them less. ChatGPT has the exact opposite incentive baked in

Re: He wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. It took over his life

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These stories always focus on a vulnerable person, but what is the chatbot optimizing for?? It wants you to keep talking. Longer sessions, more training data, better engagement numbers. A therapist has a professional reason to make you need them less. ChatGPT has the exact opposite incentive baked in

Even if theres no business purpose, tge function of these models is to produce tokens. That alone skews the intelligence capabilities.