Sure, we had fires before we started refining and making accelerants, but that doesn’t mean that we should just let people throw accelerants on fires willy nilly.
“People died in car accidents before we started putting MurderSpikes™ on the front of our cars, and they will continue to die in car accidents after we stop putting MurderSpikes™ on the front of our cars.”
People have been mentally ill before AI, and will continue to be after AI
LLMs are out there literally egging people on.
Sure, we had fires before we started refining and making accelerants, but that doesn’t mean that we should just let people throw accelerants on fires willy nilly.
“People died in car accidents before we started putting MurderSpikes™ on the front of our cars, and they will continue to die in car accidents after we stop putting MurderSpikes™ on the front of our cars.”
No, there are by now several research papers showing that sycophantic chatbots are affecting regular people just as much as mentally unstable people.
How did the papers screen the participants to make sure they’re “regular people”