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[โ€“] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 15 hours ago

Oh my god yes. The moment I read the headline, it all fell into place.

Yes - it's necessarily pretty much the exact same effect, because the LLM, like the mentalist, is taking cues from the input it gets and making connections and feeding back whatever is most (statistically) likely to be appropriately on-topic.

And exactly as with a mentalist, everything that approaches what they want to hear is going to get an encouraging response, and likely further prompts which serve to narrow it down even further, and make it even easier to tell them even more precisely just what they want to hear..

Wow...