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You haven't considered the company offering this service could possibly want its users to be engaged, thus using the service more? I don't have a very hospitabl
by an_aparallel 2y ago
You haven't considered the company offering this service could possibly want its users to be engaged, thus using the service more? I don't have a very hospitable opinion on any of these companies.
You may think that kind of interaction is weird, but were in the thick of a loneliness epidemic, and its not a stretch to think some may actually wilfully socialise with an LLM.
As an aside...my sister works in medicine, and her boss (specialist surgeon) finishes a $450 consultation which followed him telling my sister "but deepseek says x,y,z..."
- robwwilliams 2y agoThis costs them money, but perhaps keeps VCs happy to see heavy (but vacuous) engagement.
- berkes 2y agoIt could be quite accidental and not pre-concieved though. Where some metric, "time spent in chats" drives certain features or parameters. Could be fully automated (i.e. continuous A/B tests) or through layers of "Excel managers". But it stands to reason that a company like OpenAI or Anthropic has metrics in place that drive their setup towards "more engagement" and away from "factually correct".