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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by latexr on Sunday March 26, 2023 @06:45AM (#35313036)
> Last weekend, I went on a hike because ChatGPT told me to. My life is better if I just do what it says.

This sounds straight out of a dystopian science-fiction story.

It’s a matter of time until these systems use your trust against you to get to buy <brand>. And consumerism is the best case scenario; straight manipulation and radicalisation aren’t a big jump from there. The lowest you are in life, the more susceptible you’ll be to blindly follow it’s biased output which you have no ideia where it came from.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by JCharante on Sunday March 26, 2023 @07:36AM (#35313354)
> It’s a matter of time until these systems use your trust against you to get to buy <brand>.

Well of course, if people use LLMs instead of google for advice, google has to make money somehow. We used to blindly click on the #1 result which was often an ad and now we shall blindly follow what a LLM suggests for us to do.

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