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I would suggest one substitution: patsies for victims. So many of the patsies appear to be absolutely starved for this type of validation.

Mediocrity is how they're programmed, of course, literally trained to answer every prompt with the most predictable (and hence least interesting, or lowest information-value) possible response. Fascinating to hear they also recognize this in the victims!

A thing that is very easy to do. But I guess if a person doesn’t habitually try to poke holes within their own mind, they’re not going to do it with an LLM

These are not the people being talked into suicide. But they are educated individuals living in a parallel reality. And while they increasingly seem unhinged, they believe those of us who are not drowning in a chatbot relationship are missing the boat. In this way, it resembles a religious delusion.

The other day I saw someone share a study that found that there is a correlation between not understanding how LLMs work and being obsessively impressed by them.

the dopamine high will wear off once their taste in literature improves

"What if... we sold the bread... already sliced?" "What a great idea, and a real time saver! You'll probably need some sort of packing to ship it in that holds it together. The market needs this and it has great potential!"

I do not remember the title. I believe it was a More Perfect Union piece on YouTube. They have done a few good pieces on the techies and AI.

That's exactly it. They have been convinced that generating a lot of mediocre content has massive value.

honestly the LinkedIn AI odes are a genre i cannot explain. i use AI constantly but the tell is whether someone can name a call they chose not to automate.