@TechDesk @Techcrunch Very misleading headline, AI assistants are not "building their own social network", a bunch of devs are building a website where people can watch ChatGPT talk to itself.
@aral @pluralistic I first heard him put forward this "AI is asbestos" theory in this episode of QAA's podcast. It'll interest you I think.https://podtail.com/podcast/qanon-anonymous/cory-doctorow-destroys-enshitification-e338/
This is yet another paper that finds quickly-diminishing returns of reflective thinking.And this paper's result may be more severe: Figure 3 (above) shows accuracy on medical question-answering improved on second thought, but either plateaued or DECLINED *after* second thought.