It’s likely gonna be more sinister than that, with so many people finding a digital companion in LLMs. It’s like marketing on steroids, where a few suggestions, repetition and seemingly “logical” reasoning from the “digital friend” will convince majority of the users to trust it.
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I was listening to a podcast yesterday and the guy was very pro-AI but he talked about the downsides and what people need to be careful about and this issue is one of them.