The Drain 011 - AI in CA

A few days back a great and terrifying piece came out in Rolling Stone exploring how an overly effusive new version of ChatGPT learned language model is convincing people all over the world that they are messiahs and prophets.

It is both stunning and unsurprising to learn how close to psychosis we all are. Soap in our food? Sure. AI models convincing us we were almost murdered by our babysitters as toddlers? Okay.

Even OpenAI, the company behind the issue, has made a statement on Chat GPT's "sycophantic" new persona.

But while regular learned language model users have noted its latest version's lean toward sycophancy, and how a model may or may not exacerbate our friends’ bouts with psychosis, California governor Gavin Newsom is doubling down on AI.

You might remember a bill last year designed to ensure that AI was developed ethically here in the world’s LLM capital: SB 1047: Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act.

It passed both the Senate and the Assembly. Then Newsom vetoed it.

We're discussing how this new technology could change, well, everything, and the concerns folks are raising about its potential effects on our wellbeing.

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