Too good not to share! I did not know this.
If you want to "void" a row in a paper tape, you punch out every dot, and that happens to be the DEL character in ASCII.
🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”
You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.
The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.
Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.
Source: @heynavtoor
@JosephKahn Don't forget diplomacy and morale. I wonder if the superhero movies that have talking scenes over a meal are inspired by the old trope where adventurers meet in a tavern.