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Re:Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods by wood_spirit on Saturday July 12, 2025 @06:44AM (#44541022)
> Conversational partner

This is the ai holy grail. When tech companies can get users to think of the ai as a friend ( -> best friend -> only friend -> lover ) and be loyal to it it will make the monetisation possibilities of the ad fuelled outrage engagement of the past 10 years look silly.

Scary that that is the endgame for “social” media.

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Re:Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods by Applejinx on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:19AM (#44541211)
People were already willing to do that with Eliza. When you combine LLMs with a bit of persistent storage, WOOF. It's gonna be extremely nasty.

Gaslight reality, coming right up, at scale. Only costs like ten degrees of global warming and the death of the world as we know it. But WOW, the opportunities for massed social control!

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