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Yes. It pulls people towards normality, since it gives the average words for every answer. Meanwhile social media encouraged people to be different enough to su
by eastbound 10mo ago
Yes. It pulls people towards normality, since it gives the average words for every answer. Meanwhile social media encouraged people to be different enough to surface, and therefore encouraged abnormality.
- watwut 10mo agoIt will happily validate you toward any deep hole or extreme you want to. It is as bad or even worst then social media in that regard.
- alistairSH 10mo agoTry reading the article. ChatGPT did no such thing.
- mgraczyk 10mo agoIt's not true in any sense that LLMs "give the average words for every answer"
- embedding-shape 10mo agoIt's a over-simplification, that's for sure, one bordering on incorrect. But for people who don't care about the internals, I don't think it's a harmful perspective to keep.
- mgraczyk 10mo agoIt's harmful because in this context it leads to an incorrect conclusion. There's no reason to believe that LLMs "averaging" behavior would cause a suicidal person to be "pulled toward normal"
- embedding-shape 10mo agoIt's a philosophical argument more than anything I think. And it does beg the question, does your mind form itself around with the humans (entities?) you converse with? So if you talk with a lot of smart people, you'll end up a bit smarter yourself, and if you talk with a lot of dull people, you'll end up dulling yourself. If you agree with that, I can see how someone would believe that LLMs would pull people closer to the material they were trained on.
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- buckle8017 10mo agoThat's literally what an LLM is. They predict what the most likely next word is.
- mgraczyk 10mo agoThat's wrong and even if it were not wrong, it would still not fix the problem. What if the most likely response is "kill yourself"
- MallocVoidstar 10mo ago'Predicts the most likely tokens' is not the same as 'pulls people towards normality'.