The more time I spend studying the underlying structure of these things, the more I think that what they’re going to do isn’t so much rot brains as drive those

The more time I spend studying the underlying structure of these things, the more I think that what they’re going to do isn’t so much rot brains as drive those brains towards accepting / preferring / privileging the statistical mean of boring. They can only ever regurgitate what past humans in past work were most likely to say, modulo a small stochastic simulation of surprise… over time they’ll add more of their own output to their training material, driving the output of humanity inexorably further and further towards uninteresting.