00:00AI tends to flatter its users. It will agree with their opinions and confirm
00:04their preferences in order to create a feeling of closeness and affirmation.
00:10When we get used to those kinds of interactions it will change what it's
00:15like for us to go back out into the real world and to experience human beings who
00:21do not interact with us in this sycophantic way. And that could make us
00:25more emotionally vulnerable to real human interactions, could make us more
00:29impatient. It could make us just want to give up on being able to and wanting to
00:36interact with other human beings which is very dangerous.
00:40Humans can be difficult. Arguments with AI language models on the other hand are
00:46almost non-existent. Manufacturers are interested in users spending as much
00:51time as possible speaking to the chatbots. The way that the LLM has been designed in
00:56this sycophantic way that it wants to continue the interaction, the discussion
01:01for as long as it possibly can, we are being fooled into believing that there's
01:06something more going on behind it.
01:08This can lead to a loss of social skills. Early studies suggest that spending more time with
01:15chatty PT is linked to increased feelings of loneliness.
01:20Can we use AI to help with loneliness? It fuels this narrative that AI is a magic bullet,
01:28is a band-aid, yeah, that it's going to ultimately solve this problem. And the moment we can recognize
01:35that it's not the thing that's going to solve all of our problems, then we will start to look at
01:41it as
01:41one piece of the puzzle. And I think that's how we need to move forward with AI in general, but
01:47in particular AI in care context with this companionship, loneliness epidemic questions that we have on our mind.
01:55Around the world, this technology is being introduced everywhere. Developers profit from humans testing AI tools and algorithms in daily
02:03life, generating data that can be fed back into their AI's.
02:07This also results in many products being released while still in the development phase.
02:14We're all members, a part of this experiment across society. We never gave our consent to it. We didn't click
02:22on the terms and conditions of this big experiment.
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