And this is a great comment in general, thanks. I’m favoriting it.
It also makes perfect sense: RHLF and other LLM “final stage” tuning techniques literally optimize for sycophancy. It isn’t an inherent property of LLMs, persay (which you can see if you try base models or “anti-sycophancy” finetunes), but its baked into consumer-facing models to an unbelievable degree.
The only slight retort I have is that social media already provided a personalized, sycophantic “wormtongue” fix. So narcissicsts were already pre-conditioned to turn to these tech portals.
Chat-tuned LLMs just perfected that and took it up to 11.
Yes, the mass profliferation of pocket black mirrors was indeed the transitional step, the foundation of systemic weaponized narcissism upon which its essentially ‘ideal’ form has been built.
I love this phrase. I’m going to use it.
And this is a great comment in general, thanks. I’m favoriting it.
It also makes perfect sense: RHLF and other LLM “final stage” tuning techniques literally optimize for sycophancy. It isn’t an inherent property of LLMs, persay (which you can see if you try base models or “anti-sycophancy” finetunes), but its baked into consumer-facing models to an unbelievable degree.
The only slight retort I have is that social media already provided a personalized, sycophantic “wormtongue” fix. So narcissicsts were already pre-conditioned to turn to these tech portals.
Chat-tuned LLMs just perfected that and took it up to 11.
I agree with your fine-tune.
Yes, the mass profliferation of pocket black mirrors was indeed the transitional step, the foundation of systemic weaponized narcissism upon which its essentially ‘ideal’ form has been built.