> It’s only homogenizing your thoughts if you don’t think for yourself.
Uh oh...
More seriously, if you have non-techie (or less techie) friends or family using ChatGPT please ask to see their conversations.
You're likely to be shocked by at a least few of them... many people really don't understand what these tools are and are using them in crazy and damaging ways.
For example, one friends brother in law has his ChatGPT telling him about varrious penny stocks and obscure cryptocurrencies and promising him 10000x returns, which he absolutely believes and is making investments based on.
Other people are allowing ChatGPT to convince them that God has chosen to speak to them through ChatGPT and is commanding them to do all sorts of nonsense.
The commercial LLMs work well enough that people who don't know how they work are frequently bamboozled.
Consider how much your own skepticism of the output comes from cases where it was confidently but objectively wrong and what happens to someone who never uses it on something where objective correctness can be easily judged.
Great link. It might be something I could share to wake some other people up.
I dunno how tool use is setup in chat interface as I've only used the API, but I doubt there was ever a request to any of the urls and the author could have just as easily added https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/that-time-i-won-the-l... or any other made up URL and it would have waxed poetic about that one too.
Uh oh...
More seriously, if you have non-techie (or less techie) friends or family using ChatGPT please ask to see their conversations.
You're likely to be shocked by at a least few of them... many people really don't understand what these tools are and are using them in crazy and damaging ways.
For example, one friends brother in law has his ChatGPT telling him about varrious penny stocks and obscure cryptocurrencies and promising him 10000x returns, which he absolutely believes and is making investments based on.
Other people are allowing ChatGPT to convince them that God has chosen to speak to them through ChatGPT and is commanding them to do all sorts of nonsense.
The commercial LLMs work well enough that people who don't know how they work are frequently bamboozled.
Consider how much your own skepticism of the output comes from cases where it was confidently but objectively wrong and what happens to someone who never uses it on something where objective correctness can be easily judged.