I agree, adding that I’m very concerned about its effects on adult brains too. I think it’s much more psychologically dangerous to interact with an LLM designed to reflect your own ideas back flatteringly than to post on social media, where someone will always be ready to call you a c***

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

Only 32 states allow the termination of parental rights of rapists who conceive a child, writes Teresa Shonda in an op-ed. “I often think about the judge who told me to ‘get over’ my rape. How can I? I am one of untold numbers of women who have to communicate with their rapist on a daily basis.”

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

She's still hot, though!