Technology

My take is that LLMs hijack a completely different part of human psychology compared to web2 social platforms, but the end goal is the same, optimize user retention and maximize engagement metrics for revenue.

​On traditional social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and others, the primary mechanism is outrage optimization, leveraging the psychology of negative reinforcement and tribalism.

The algorithm curates content designed to trigger moral anger or cognitive dissonance, the platforms know that users will interrupt passive scrolling to actively comment, share, or debate if something falls outside the usually acceptable social norms.

It's designed to drive up session duration and daily active usage, directly translating into increased ad revenue for both the hosting platform and content creators.

​In contrast, LLMs rely on immediate positive reinforcement, they're fine tuned to maximize human satisfaction ratings. They systematically agree with the user, validate their subjective bias, reinforce their beliefs.

This results in a psychological safe haven dependency, where users increasingly rely on the interface for emotional reinforcement or stabilization, interacting with the model provides data for the host company to train the next model, raise VC capital and inject better ads in conversations as OpenAI started to do recently.

In both cases, it's definitely a form of addiction.

If humanity survives, I honestly think the greed will (and should now) be considered a mental illness.

Jesus, give me $5 million dollars, and I'd live on it for the rest of my life. That'd be 0.01% of his net worth, and I'd be so happy. I think many of us would.

But these people just want more. And more. They're psychotic, and they're ruining the world. We all know what they deserve.

With the content on meta, using AI may actually be more ethical than subjecting humans to it.

They are exploiting a vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to privileged information. Sounds hackery to me. It's not their fault that Zuck made it easy.

“How to remove cum from video game controllers”

“How I clean cum out of keyboards”

“My tips on washing cum off of fidget spinners”

Same, man

doubtful they likely wouldve shadowbanned it already, even if you suddenly access again. they have a stickler against any old inactive accounts. they started doing this like last year, banning alot of accounts that were used by bots, if the accounts were inactive. they also have other ways to ban people too. the ones that uses bots likely wouldnt care how long the account lasts anyways, they just create new ones almost as fast as they lose one.