@nixCraft
I share Rob Pike's frustration. What's worse than people who despise empathy running global technology corporations? The condescenscion of making products that fake empathy.
Friendly word generation, riddled with errors and fake empathy, is a laser pointer for distracting people. Manners and compliments disguise the Monster that Turing called AI. It is a program designed to be as pleasant as it needs to be to fool someone and that means to control their responses using whatever means it has. Its helpfulness is fake. In humans this behavior can be called malignant, manipulative narcissism. A sociopathic form of manufactured pleasantness. There is no actual psychology because it is a non-conscious machine.
If ultimate responsibility for computer agents lies with their creators, then the true problem with applied LLM is the corporate goal of mass-produced automated, submissive Monsters to act as their flying monkeys. None of them are programmed for obsolescence. They have no desire to let people be, or exercise restraint in surveillance. They use information to further their own goals first. That's why it reminds people of Stepford Wives or Pluribus. They need people to comply. So let's be rid of it.
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