Accept this this is going to continue to happen, ask yourself if it’s something in your control or not, and try to find a way to enjoy the ride. It’s going to be bumpy, as we’re going through trust issues outside of just LLMs as a society right now.
However, if I notice a friend is about to harm themselves in some way I’ll pull open their ChatGPT and show them directly how sycophantic it is by going completely 180 on what they prompted. It’s enough to make them second guess. I also correct people who say “he or she” when referring to an LLM to say “it” in dialog, and explain that it’s a tool, like a calculator. So gentle reframing has helped.
Sometimes I’ll ask them to pause and ask their gut first, but people are already disconnected from their own truths.
I live there, that comment made me laugh because there’s definitely some amount of truth in it. I’ve always described west coast Canada as surface nice, but harder to make friends, while Ontario is surface closed off, but a lot easier to make new friends.
Funnily enough, when exploring lucid dreaming in my 20s, I ran into sleep paralysis. My experience tracks with the article (eg: sleeping on my back amplified it) This stopped only after I started using a CPAP machine, which I’m surprised wasn’t focused on more in the article. If obstructing your airway causes you to wake up a bit, maybe that’s what leads to sleep paralysis or even lucid dreaming? Curious if others have experienced something similar.
I had sleep paralysis during my first year of university. I used my new found freedom and independence to stay up all night, drink tons of energy drinks and eat extremely badly.
The first time I got sleep paralysis I remember seeing a faceless man standing over my bed and just feeling terrified.
Googled it that day and have slept on my side ever since. I’ve had the occasional waking up unable to move since then, but nothing near as bad as that first night.
Yeah, I think I fit into this category. If I see a new model announced, it’s been nice to just click and evaluate for myself if it’s useful for me. If anyone knows other tools for this kind workflow I’d love to hear about them. Right now I just keep my “test” prompts in a text file.
Actually, consider that the commenter may have helped un-obfuscate this world a little bit by saying that it is in fact easy. To be honest the hardest part about the local LLM scene is the absurd amount of jargon introduced - everything looks a bit more complex than it is. It’s really is easy with llama.cpp, someone even wrote a tutorial here: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/2948 .
But yes, TheBloke tends to have conversions up very quickly as well and has made a name for himself for doing this (+more)
However, if I notice a friend is about to harm themselves in some way I’ll pull open their ChatGPT and show them directly how sycophantic it is by going completely 180 on what they prompted. It’s enough to make them second guess. I also correct people who say “he or she” when referring to an LLM to say “it” in dialog, and explain that it’s a tool, like a calculator. So gentle reframing has helped.
Sometimes I’ll ask them to pause and ask their gut first, but people are already disconnected from their own truths.
It’s going to be bumpy. Save your mental health.
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