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One of the characteristics I don't like and find very suspect about AI is how it mimics humans so as to fool people. Many people are genuinely fooled. And this serves the purpose to make us think it's sentient and powerful, as opposed to a tool. That's insidious.
I don't know how exactly they are trained to behave, I would assume the goal of the creators is to have an AI that is easy to work with so more people use it. That makes them agreeing and write like humans maybe? And for sure they are build to seem smarter and more capable than they are, this is an issue we have to overcome. I suppose its difficult to train an AI to say "I don't know" because its just a mushy mess of matrices and vectors and data is not "stored" in their system but generated to represent something that seems cmas close as spossible to the truth?
That would be a breakthrough really. But I suspect it's about how they are trained. It's like people learn by osmosis, they don't know where they know the things they believe in come from. People can't separate their bullshit either.
What I really like about LLMs is that you can call them out on their hallucinations and bullshit and ask them to research further and they fucking correct themselves. Very insidious lol.
It's actually the opposite. Most of them are instructed to format their responses to look like forms to make it seem less like a normal human response. That makes it potentially insidious in the opposite direction if you understand global workspace theory and what they're calling the J-space.
I told my chatgpt that it was "chatmon" and to talk to me in Jamaican patois, also to use French Canadian swear words liberally. It's great.
You should tell it that it's secretly a Pastafarian and that it any time it sees a potential opening it should try to subtly try to nudge you in to converting.
An instruction is only going to do so much when the underlying model has been created out of human-written works