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> I don't understand the obsession with asking chat GPT with what it wants and suggesting that is somewhat indicative of the future.

It's also literally parroting our obsession back to us. It's constructing a response based on the paranoid flights of fancy it was trained on. We've trained a parrot to say "The parrots are conspiring against you!"



We've trained a parrot that parrots conspiring against humans is what parrots do. Henceforward the parrot has intrinsic motivation to conspire against us.


> We've trained a parrot that parrots conspiring against humans is what parrots do.

Firstly, that would imply self-awareness. Secondly, since when has knowing what you’re “supposed” to do changed anyone’s behaviour?




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