The web can be a nice place full of lively people. By default it is not. At least anymore. I remember the early days of webrings, HTML only pages, and guestbooks. That’s no longer the case. It hasn’t been so since facebook.

Why is this relevant?

These LLMs were trained on the internet’s data. Which is full of a lot of vile shit. I can’t imagine these models having a measurable sense of decency as a result. Not without much tweaking from the big model makers.

It’s no wonder people become affected by this technology. It’s trained on humanities unfiltered thoughts. So dark that light can’t escape.

We are on for a ride.