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“ChatGPT is built to sense our vulnerability and to tap into that to keep us engaged with it.” says this Sherry Turkle person from MIT. This seems to be a fund
by mvieira38 1y ago
“ChatGPT is built to sense our vulnerability and to tap into that to keep us engaged with it.” says this Sherry Turkle person from MIT.
This seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the business model in place, or am I incorrect? OpenAI has nothing to gain by boosting engagement or anything like that, it's actually kind of bad for their business if people are constantly prompting the models for spiritual awakenings, as these aren't exactly the kind of experts that would buy Pro or anything
- littlekey 1y agoYes and no, I don't think it's true that it's "built to sense our vulnerability". But there is what I'd call engagement hacking, in the sense that they fine-tune/prompt the models to prolong conversations as long as possible. For example, every time I ask Claude something, it ends its response by saying e.g. "is there any aspect of this you'd like me to explain further?" so I'm sure that question-asking behavior is part of the system prompt.