I wonder if that's why you get those folks that defend it so strongly because the chat bot gave them validation through digital ass kissing.
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2025
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Effectively, what LLMs do is exactly the same thing that mentalists do - they wait for "prompts" to indicate your area(s) of interest, then feed you strings of words that are statistically likely to be well received.
Or in much simpler terms, and by design, they tell you what you want to hear.
Baldur Bjarnason has a piece from July 2023 called The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con^[https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/] that you might appreciate, if you haven't read it yet. :)
I did lift that basic concept from an article I read, and I would assume it was that one. Thanks for the link.
In reality it just makes you stupid, but faster.
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I'M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY'RE ALL FP4
Wtf I love AI now
We did not need 'AI' to get to this point.. People are freaking out over a mirror.