With all this AI I really wish there was one that could watch videos and podcasts for me and do a decent writeup for me (and I don't mean a transcript! But a readable article with a decent flow in it).
I have ADHD and zero patience for videos/podcasts so I really need something like this. This link is also a video that's why I mention it :) Obviously I didn't watch it.
Slightly unrelated, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is such a great read and is overshadowed compared to a lot of other Science fiction, cyberpunk, predictive novels.
"real threat is us" framing is underspecified. Amplification is the problem.
LLMs are mirrors. They take whatever the user (or the institution, or the platform) is already doing and amplify it. Sycophancy is the consumer-facing version: model converges to flattery because that's what user-approval optimization actually selects for.
The model removes the friction that used to make us stop and check ourselves. The same property that makes it useful makes it amplification machinery.
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What about just not watching the videos and podcasts? Reads more like a FOMO problem.
LLMs are mirrors. They take whatever the user (or the institution, or the platform) is already doing and amplify it. Sycophancy is the consumer-facing version: model converges to flattery because that's what user-approval optimization actually selects for.
The model removes the friction that used to make us stop and check ourselves. The same property that makes it useful makes it amplification machinery.