This is something that I think should be studied more. I think a large reason chatbots are so popular, is that they are just used as a sounding board for people who either have no inner monologue, or no one else to talk to, or they’ve never kept a notebook/journal of any kind. The bots help them get their thoughts out, and while stroking their ego, it helps them think through problems. The llm isn’t actually solving anything. It’s just helping those people think through it.
It’s interesting to me. I think a lot of people addicted to LLM’s probably aren’t good at critical thinking, and that’s why they enjoy using it, because it guides them along (and can reinforce their preconceived beliefs, which is the dangerous part).
It’s definitely a bad thing for human brains. It will be an interesting field of study in the future for sure.
hey, i’m gen ai’s biggest hater, and i have no inner monologue! thinking in a different way doesn’t mean a lack of critical thinking ability 😭
lacking critical thinking is the problem here, or being so resigned to the dystopian nature of capitalist european coloniser society that they genuinely can’t conceptualise the possibility of things being better, so they’re happy to accept whatever short-term personal benefits that they can (despite knowing that they’ll be harmed in the long-term), in favour of minor sacrifices for long-term benefits, because they don’t genuinely believe in anything lasting long-term (including themselves).
I would agree. Everything now is shortcuts shortcuts shortcuts. That’s what I hate so much about this culture. Quality, real work is not valued.
While I still find it just crazy that people can’t have an internal monologue, I understand where you are coming from!
You got me curious, no voice in your own mind? When you think about the text you are writing, there is no voice speaking the words? They just are typed?
how does it work?
i just think in thoughts & concepts, i’m not sure how else to explain it. i suppose thought must have evolved before language did, going back far enough in our evolution. and if it isn’t broken, why fix it? 😅
i can get songs & music stuck in my head, or sometimes just a fragment of a song stuck on a loop, so it’s not all silence all the time.
that might be getting a bit off-topic for fuck_ai tho. but essentially, i see how gen-ai chatbots are designed to prey on people who are lonely/isolated/lacking community & who are feeling low enough that they don’t care about their own long-term wellbeing (let alone future generations’), but idk if thinking differently is necessarily exploitable the same way.
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Yeah to add to another comment, if you’re perfectly quiet then are you also quiet internally?
Thanks
having no internal monologue doesn’t save me from songs or song fragments looping in my head 😅
it also doesn’t mean i’m not thinking. i can have a millionty different ideas swirling in my head at once, they’re just conceptual and not being voiced by an internal narrator
this might be a bit off-topic for fuck_ai tho, apologies to the mods if so!
That’s awesome! Thank you! ( and mods)