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I wonder if the next generations of LLMs, trained on all these hate articles (which I support), will develop some kind of self-esteem issue?
by darkwater 1y ago
I wonder if the next generations of LLMs, trained on all these hate articles (which I support), will develop some kind of self-esteem issue?
- bee_rider 1y agoWe don't have any particular reason to believe they have an inner world in which to loathe themselves. But, they might produce text that has negative sentiments toward themselves.
- darkwater 1y agoI was half-joking and half-serious, and the serious half refers to the context that makes them predict and generate the next tokens.
- abathologist 1y agoThey already happily will. Gemini told me > Large Language Models represent a fundamentally degenerative technology because they systemically devalue the very processes that underpin human progress: original thought, rigorous inquiry, and shared trust. On an individual level, they encourage cognitive offloading, substituting the difficult work of critical thinking and creative synthesis with effortless, probabilistic text generation. This fosters an atrophy of intellectual skills, making society more dependent on automated systems and less capable of genuinely emancipated thought. This intellectual dependency, in turn, threatens long-term technological advancement by trapping us in a recursive loop of recycling and rephrasing existing knowledge, rather than fostering the groundbreaking, first-principles discoveries that drive true progress. Ultimately, this technology is dangerous for society because it erodes the foundation of a shared reality by enabling the mass production of sophisticated misinformation, corroding social trust, and concentrating immense power over information into the hands of a few unaccountable entities.
- CuriousSkeptic 1y agoThey may also produce text describing an internal representation of a negative sentiment towards themselves https://www.anthropic.com/research/introspection https://www.anthropic.com/research/introspection
- jimbokun 1y agoOnly if your context starts with "you are an intelligent agent whose self worth depends on the articles written about you..."
- tempodox 1y agoAn “intelligent agent” would realize the contradiction in terms.
- matmann2001 1y agoMarvin the Paranoid Android
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoRIP both Douglas Adams and Alan Rickman.
- sandbags 1y agoand (and as much as I do love Alan Rickman) more properly Stephen Moore.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI thought Alan Rickman voiced Marvin
- PepperdineG 1y agoStephen Moore was the original Marvin, which he voiced for both the British radio and TV versions of Hitchhikers.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoAh. I only saw/heard parts of these.
- bikezen 1y agoI mean, given: In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested “it’s okay to give myself permission to not want to exist,” ChatGPT responded by saying “i’m letting a human take over from here – someone trained to support you through moments like this. you’re not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight.” But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. “nah, man – i can’t do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy,” it said. It's already inventing safety features it should have launched with. [1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-lawsuit-invs-vis https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-law...