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chr15m • today at 2:56 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Although LLMs are not deterministic in normal operation (because of the temperature values used) they are still strongly biased in their outputs. Bias in their outputs is literally how they function.

So you get a different type of conformism where people who interact with LLMs a lot are going to be influenced towards the median, as encoded in those token probability look up tables.

The effect is basically the same as what Heidegger and Illich were worried about, and I think we're seeing it happen already everywhere.

A solution(?) is to try to be your true weird authentic self when you act in the world, rather than bending your words and behaviours to the machine and LLM probability shape.


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jfengel • today at 3:06 AM

Aren't we also biased in our outputs? Many of our choices are predictable, even if not perfectly consistent. We just call it "personality".

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