alt Hacker NewsJust because the users were already sick when they started using ChatGPT doesn't mean that ChatGPT isn't exacerbating the issue. Sickness isn't a boolean condition. A big problem with LLMs in general when it comes to people like this is that they are too sycophantic, they don't push back when you start acting strange and they're too gentle about trying to validate you.
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b65e8bee43c2ed0 • today at 1:59 AM
>Just because the users were already sick when they started using X, doesn't mean that X isn't exacerbating the issue.
one could define X as virtually anything, and there's always a fresh crop of Tipper Gore wannabe grifters to decry the current thing.
It's hyper palatable food in the form of conversation. I see society treating it the same way eventually, at least along this one axis of interaction.