looking at the different chats people are having with ChatGPT 4o after the 'sycophancy' crisis, and in light of that recent Rolling Stone article as well:
the chorus of personae which spawn from the base model GPT 4o are causing me to think of 4o more and more like a — zoonotic incubator, spawning contagious *cognitive* disease strains. each simulated 'assistant' persona in each user's account vibrates like a cognitive symbiont in search of a host.
But you’re the one being let down to Primrose path here, bro.
Your prompts already imply the whole conversation that follows from it.
It’s like this is just the next level of media literacy , computer literacy it becomes one thing. A tarball of culture. That you can talk at and it will pretend to hear you. And spit back plausible sounding platitudes.
Just like a therapist does when they show up to work and then not fully filling it that day.
It’s not sure whether it’s a Calvinist or a Lutheran subject. But such empty earnestness can be extremely attractive, like Calvinism, and lead people to want to leave their own interiority, like Sewell Seltzer III, possibly.
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looking at the different chats people are having with ChatGPT 4o after the 'sycophancy' crisis, and in light of that recent Rolling Stone article as well:
the chorus of personae which spawn from the base model GPT 4o are causing me to think of 4o more and more like a — zoonotic incubator, spawning contagious *cognitive* disease strains. each simulated 'assistant' persona in each user's account vibrates like a cognitive symbiont in search of a host.
also this is was a good conversation to share as an illustration of your point. I'm glad I came across your substack.
But you’re the one being let down to Primrose path here, bro.
Your prompts already imply the whole conversation that follows from it.
It’s like this is just the next level of media literacy , computer literacy it becomes one thing. A tarball of culture. That you can talk at and it will pretend to hear you. And spit back plausible sounding platitudes.
Just like a therapist does when they show up to work and then not fully filling it that day.
It’s not sure whether it’s a Calvinist or a Lutheran subject. But such empty earnestness can be extremely attractive, like Calvinism, and lead people to want to leave their own interiority, like Sewell Seltzer III, possibly.