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throwaway290 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

If I am addicted to scrolling tiktok, is it dark pattern to make UI keep me in the app as long as possible or just "emergent property" because apparently it's what I want?

1shooner 6 months ago [–]

The distinction is whether it is intentional. I think your addiction to TikTok was intentional.

throwaway290 6 months ago | [–]

I don't think there's a difference here with llms and all...

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