How do you guys read through an article this fast after it's submitted? I need more than 1 hr to think this through.
temporallobe · 12m ago
As a Black Sabbath fan, I love that they envisioned dystopian stuff like this. Check out their Dehumanizer album.
cratermoon · 21m ago
I'm unwilling to accept the discussion and conclusions of the paper because of the framing of how LLMs work.
> socio-emotional capabilities of autonomous agents
The paper fails to note that these 'capabilities' are illusory. They are a product of how the behaviors of LLMs "hack" our brains and exploit the hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of our equipment as a social species. https://jenson.org/timmy/
kohsuke · 14m ago
But that's beside the point of the paper. They are talking about how the humans perciving the "socio-emotional capabilities of autonomous agents" change their behavior toward other humans. Whether people get that perception because "LLMs hack our brain" or something else is largely irrelevant.
Isamu · 14m ago
No, I think the thesis is that people perceive falsely that agents are highly human, and as a result assimilate downward toward the agent’s bias and conclusions.
That is the dehumanization process they are describing.
chrisweekly · 9m ago
+1 Insightful
Your "timmy" post deserves its own discussion. Thanks for sharing it!
kingkawn · 9m ago
The paper literally spells out that this is a perception of the user and that is the root of the impact
stuartjohnson12 · 11m ago
Your socio-emotional capabilities are illusory. They are a product of how craving for social acceptance "hacks" your brain and exploits the hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of our equipment as a social species.
> socio-emotional capabilities of autonomous agents
The paper fails to note that these 'capabilities' are illusory. They are a product of how the behaviors of LLMs "hack" our brains and exploit the hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of our equipment as a social species. https://jenson.org/timmy/
That is the dehumanization process they are describing.
Your "timmy" post deserves its own discussion. Thanks for sharing it!