@futurebird my question when I see things like this is: what was he getting from the LLM that he couldn’t get from the humans in his life? it’s not *just* validation. it’s a feeling of being understood.
How can communities do better to *compete* with LLMs at *being a community*
at providing that help and understanding
the other day, for example, I saw an ad for an LLM based language tutoring app. The advertisement’s character said “i need to learn conversational french, but I can’t find a practice partner, and I don’t want to waste my girlfriend’s time”
these things are surrogate communities in an increasingly hostile and disconnected world