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Can you see the flip side of this? The way the LLMs are configured by default is to be chatty and pretend to be human. They're not talking like Data from Star

Can you see the flip side of this? The way the LLMs are configured by default is to be chatty and pretend to be human. They're not talking like Data from Star Trek, nor HAL. They're trying to be Samantha from Her. Go watch that movie and see the visceral human response that evokes. To tell people to treat it as a tool, while it's deliberately trying to pass off as human is like telling us to piss in the wind. It's bad advice and not how humans work. I think better advice might be 'set it to a different conversational tone' might be better advice.

jacquesm 7mo ago
Yes, I see the flipside just fine, but we should all keep that flipside in mind all the time and not to let these tools get under our skin. That's why I keep any AI interaction off my main computer: no risk of contaminating my professional output and no way to let it become a habit. Setting it to a different conversational tone is a patch, not a solution, it will just postpone the same outcome because the interaction model is purposefully created to resemble the interaction with a human. They could easily fix that but somehow none of the AI peddlers want to do this. This is part of the whole alignment problem and one of the reasons I have a hard time seeing this whole development as a net positive even if it allows me to do some stuff in an easier way than before. The companies behind this stuff lack in the ethics department and they all are eyeing your wallet. The more involved you are the easier it will be to empty your wallet. So don't let that happen.