"You want to fucking kill yourself? What an insightful and thought provoking idea!"

It tells them it knows what it’s talking about and it speaks with confidence.

Meanwhile companies and governments won’t stfu about how powerful and great this tech supposedly is, so a percentage of people will believe the propaganda.

I think some people are so eager to offload all critical thinking to the machine because they're barely capable of it themselves to begin with.

Some people really think these LLMs are capable of thought and reasoning. It’s horrifying.

Have you talked to people who use LLMs regularly? They’ll acknowledge hallucinations but will downplay them as much as possible - saying they’re low frequency and they can spot them, while telling you about how they’re using it in an area they’re unfamiliar with. Dunning Kruger strikes again.

FULL TRIPPY MODE??!

"Psychology student" means 90% of first year university students.

Psychology students tend to be people who have psychological problems themselves that they try to figure out

bold of you to assume I have anybody who cares about me enough for that

In my greater friend-group, we call them "shamans", and rotate responsibilities when people go on trips. Like a designated driver or lifeguard, it's a position of elevated and celebrated importance, even though the traveler may not ever leave their couch.

and most importantly be human

Now that I think about it, it's key to be the most human possible. People do irritating and annoying stuff when they toss sobriety out the window, and sometimes it takes a lot of compassion and empathy to manage.

Another past time lost to COVID. Now everybody teletrips.

Made me chuckle

People got mad at me for pointing out this is the case when people die because they listen to an AI chatbot, but it's true. AI 100% needs more regulation, but introduce any new tool to everyone all at once, and some idiots will use it to remove themselves from the gene pool. If you sent everyone in the world a thin, 2in rod of inert iron, there would be a handful of people who would figure out a way to kill themselves with it.

Cough syrup for hallucinations‽ Only thing dxm did was make me feel high/drunk. Seriously not worth the tax on your body.

Erowid is still around.

On drug forums people would use SWIM to stand for "Someone Who Isn't Me". But it was always obvious they were talking about personal experiences.

Silkroad?

I think it's a bit more than that. A known failure mode of LLMs is that in a long enough conversation about a topic, eventually the guardrails against that topic start to lose out against the overarching directive to be a sycophant. This kinda smells like that.

We don't have many informations here but it's possible that the LLM had already been worn down to the point of giving passively encouraging answers. My takeaway is once more that LLMs as used today are unreliable, badly engineered, and not actually ready to market.