I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”
— Shannon Vallor (@shannonvallor.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Huh. This might make the depredations of social media look like a minor cigarette habit.
I mean, I could fall in love with a bot too. But it’d have to be out in the physical world and make me pizza. Then it could be love. But the above is just frickin’ insane.