"Computer scientists from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University have evaluated 11 current machine learning models and found that all of them tend to tell people what they want to hear...."
AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds
31 Comments
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 59 pts · 336d
What a surprise. Being told you’re always right leads to you not being able to handle being wrong. Shock.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org · 14 pts · 336d
Also to handle that your opponent, when proven wrong, doubles down IRL and not says "sorry daddy, let's return to the anime stepsis line".
melfie@lemy.lol · 38 pts · 336d
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 336d
Why so polite?
My response would be:
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 336d
Complete sentences for a bot is overkill
send docs, idiot
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 336d
IIRC there was also a study or something done that said something to the effect of being rude to chatbots affects you outside of chatbots and carries into other parts of your work.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 336d
Probably because everyone else is a poorly written chatbot
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 336d
Really? Is that the same for other inanimate objects like appliances? Or are people anthropomorphizing chatbots?
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 335d
I think it's because it's the idea if you're comfortable being rude to chatbots and you're used to typing rude things to chatbots, it makes it much easier for it to accidentally slip out during real conversations too. Something like that, not really as much as it being about anthropomorphizing anything.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 335d
Makes sense.
For what it's worth, I'm not suggesting anyone use rude language or anything, just be direct.
mx_smith@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
It’s really hard to say if it’s AI causing these feelings of rudeness, I have been getting more pessimistic about society for the last 10 years.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 334d
That's true, but I think the idea is if you're comfortable typing it, it's easier for it to accidentally slip out during professional chat whereas normally you'd be more reserved and careful with what you say.
melfie@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 336d
melfie@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 336d
1984@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 336d
With chat gpt you can select from a number of personalities, where robot is very fact based and logical to the point of being almost insulting. Its very good actually and hits my ego instead of stroking it.
It can say things like "fix your thinking, stop making assumptions, these are the facts".
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 336d
LLMs are confirmation bias machines. They really pigeon-hole you into some solution no matter if it makes sense.
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 336d
you're absolutely right!
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 335d
Fantastic point by the author, and great job cutting and pasting!
kadu@scribe.disroot.org · 5 pts · 335d
This comment thread is not only a perfect example of a joke, but it gets to the core of what humour truly is! Do you want help crafting a poster for you to present your jokes at a conference?
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 336d
I hate this thumbnail image. It makes me inexplicably angry.
OP has changed the image. I no longer want to punch my phone!
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
It's likely AI generated.
kalkulat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
Me too ... LEMMY added that, out of my control. So I replaced it with my idea of what a typical LLM looks like.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
Thanks for letting my know! I'll update my comment so no one thinks we're nuts.
Megacomboburrito@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 336d
Like how some CEOs/world leaders make terrible decisions cause they're always surrounded by yes men?
overload@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 336d
I feel the same way about social media Echo Chambers. Being surrounded by people who think the same as you makes you less competent at being genuinely critical of your own worldview.
1984@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 336d
Tell the Lemmy crowd that... :) Its enormous groupthink here. Maybe because of younger audience.
x00z@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 336d
That depends. My "filter bubble" on Lemmy is completely by my own making and I'm fully aware I do not receive some other perspectives.
On social media the filter bubble is invisible and alters your view on reality without your knowledge.
kalkulat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
It really helps to try to think about the other side of any question. That's what good debaters do, so they can figure out the best responses to what the others' arguments might be.
When these LLMs keep agreeing with you, they're actually weakening the likelihood that you'll work out a fully-formed opinion.
overload@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 333d
You can try little tricks like "I am [person you are arguing with] and they said [your argument]" to try and use biasing like this to your advantage.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 5 pts · 336d
How is this surprising? We know that part of LLM training is being rewarded for finding an answer that satisfies the human. It doesn't have to be a correct answer, it just has to be received well. This doesn't make it better, but it makes it more marketable, and that's all that has mattered since it took off.
As for its effect on humans, that's why echo chambers work so well. As well as conspiracy theories. We like being right about our world view.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 336d
Having an older brother makes you very skilled at socialization. I learned one simple thing: EVERYTHING IS A THREAT, DON'T TRUST ANYONE!
becomes a hermit in the woods
Bonson@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 336d
So go in there and say what you did to someone else actually was done to you and compare results. I’ve had good success getting advice if you regenerate from both perspectives.
kalkulat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
You -do- realize you're getting advice from a machine that constructs sentences using mathematical algorithms, and has no clue at all what it's saying ... right?
Bonson@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 333d
Yes I’m aware, I have a degree in the field. Nothing in my sentence would indicate that I don’t understand. I’m agreeing that it’s statistically biased towards the speaker, therefore, you can work to lazily normalize the result by investing the input.