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jsroznertoday at 5:25 PM4 repliesview on HN

People think they're interacting with an "intelligence," when actually they're just getting a maximally optimized Weizenbaum feed. We're living through the sloppification of the human mind.

See e.g., https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-chatbots-are-beco...


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brianlebtoday at 7:28 PM

Could you define (or link) to what "Weizenbaum feed" means/references? Too obscure for me but I'm interested. Thanks.

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trial3today at 7:14 PM

humorously, my regular iPhone on a residential home network failed the cloudflare AI bot detection and i can’t read that article

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ben_wtoday at 6:05 PM

What's the old quote from WW2?

  I couldn't help but notice how each successive headline reporting our glorious victories seemed to draw closer to Tokyo.
Something like that.

Well. I can't help but notice how each successive headline reporting how this "scam"/stochastic parrot/"scare quotes intelligence" seems to be solving more and more things that were but a few years ago widely regarded as being indicators of high intelligence.

Being highly convinving is one of the things on that list.

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gxstoday at 7:04 PM

Or both, you know. An intelligence that also spies on you

Why is it so black and white?

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