Angus McIntyre@angusm@mastodon.social
A colleague just referred to “My friend Copilot.” A former manager talks about “My friend ChatGPT”.
Are they joking? Sure, but there’s something significant about the choice of that word ‘friend’. People are building parasocial relationships with these things, helped no doubt by the fact that they’re engineered to encourage exactly that.
No wonder our judgement about when we can trust them is so bad. We don’t doubt our friends (mostly).
Chatbots are a social engineering attack.
#LLMs #AI