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I found Murray Shanahan's paper on
(2022) full of helpful reflections on this point:
> Humans are members of a community of language-users inhabiting a shared world, and this primal fact makes them essentially different to large language models. We can consult the world to settle our disagreements and update our beliefs. We can, so to speak, “triangulate” on objective reality.
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> Murray Shanahan – [Talking About Large Language Models](http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03551)
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton
The human-chatbot interactions we describe predispose to what might be termed a "single-person echo chamber" [34](https://paperpile.com/c/Gkdt8S/oh2R) , wherein a user engaging in an extended chatbot interaction encounters their own interpretations, distorted and amplified, yet presented persuasively [76](https://paperpile.com/c/Gkdt8S/M5tY) and carrying a veneer of objective external validation.
Technological Folie a Deux - Google Docs
arxiv.org
Machines serve to contain the knowledge generated by labor practices and route it toward capitalist ends. “Being itself an embodiment of the division of labour, the machine then becomes the apparatus to discipline labour and regulate the extraction of relative surplus value,” Pasquinelli writes.
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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