The form factor of chatbots fundamentally leads to weird sycosocial outcomes.

· Bits and Bobs 9/8/25
  • The form factor of chatbots fundamentally leads to weird sycosocial outcomes.
    • Having a single personality, presenting as human-like.
    • It tricks us into acting like the LLM is a person.
    • If you look at the responses to any of Sam Altman's tweets now, it's mostly people saying things like "The new version of ChatGPT feels like you murdered my friend."
    • Even if the chatbot providers wanted to move away from sycosocial relationships, a loud part of the userbase would scream bloody murder.

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