I am on Ben Thompson’s and John Gruber’s side here: These are stochastic-parrot clever-hans software tools, potentially very useful when properly harnessed, but a source of madness to people who fall into the same trap that the gullible fell into when interacting with Weizenbaum’s ELIZA back in the day:
**CROSSPOST: JOHN GRUBER & BEN THOMPSON: Meanness & Claude**
They react to Anthropic’s declaration that it will cut off your access to Claude in extreme cases in which you are too mean to... 1/
@delong Give Weizenbaum his due: he was horrified by the way people reacted to ELIZA, and spent the rest of his career debunking the idea of chatbots as intelligence. (His book "Computer Power and Human Reason" expanded on this in 1976.)