True, and concerning.

Social media has polarized western society, one little post at a time over years.

LLM assistants are bound to have the same degree of influence, and lacks the possibility to identify and lack malicious actors that social media partly offered.
Reposted from Conor Sen
If LLM assistants take market share from social media, I suspect their “personalities” (very agreeable, like a sycophantic friend desperate for your approval trying to get you to engage with them more) will shift our moods in the same way that social media virality/outrage has.

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