Re:The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
by pmarreck on Friday August 08, 2025 @06:25PM
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If treating an LLM as a bestie is allowing yourself to be "wire-headed"... Can gaming be "wire-heading"?
Does the severity or excess matter? Is "a little" OK?
This also reminds me of one of Michael Crichton's earliest works (and a fantastic one IMHO), The Terminal Man
The scary part: It is very easy for LLMs to pick up someone's satisfaction context and feed it back to them. That can distort the original satisfaction context, and it may provide improper satisfaction (if a human did this, it might be called "joining a cult" or "emotional abuse" or "co-dependence").
You may also hear this expressed as "wire-heading"