[visarga]

> By the medium directly engaging with the person

and

> Even though there's no person in the loop

contradict each other. There is always a person in the loop, and the LLM is actually reacting to their messages, however wrong it turns out. They could have chosen a positive interaction instead. The LLM reflects back what the human puts in.

[evanextreme]

Sorry, should have clarified. By "no person in the loop" I meant from the side of the language model itself. The person is interacting with a thing which produces content for it, and the only person engaged in that process is the person consuming the content.