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We 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
by bee_rider 1y ago
We 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