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by arielcostas 312 days ago
Not just our thinking, but our search for truth. The biggest problem I see is that models can hallucinate or be biased (for example, Grok being told explicitly not to mention Trump and Musk when asked about misinformation) for the benefit of their owners or creators. This happens with Chinese models too, of course, because of their laws.

The problem is that people just trust what the LLM tells them, not realising they can be misled, or the model tells them "you're right" without any pushback or invitation to think further—just like an echo chamber, the consequences of which we've seen with social media in the last few years

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Exactly what I was getting at. They're probably the most powerful tool in human history if you wanted to influence people.

Of course they're exciting from a tech perspective but I can't help but feel people are missing the bigger picture.