Comment by timschmidt
Comment by timschmidt 4 days ago
Classical conditioning experiments seem to show that humans (and other animals) are fairly easily triggered as well. Humans have a tendency to think themselves unique when we are not.
Comment by timschmidt 4 days ago
Classical conditioning experiments seem to show that humans (and other animals) are fairly easily triggered as well. Humans have a tendency to think themselves unique when we are not.
> Only individually if significantly more effort is given for specific individuals
I think significant influence over mass media like television, social media, or the YouTube, TikTok, or Facebook algorithms[1] is sufficient.
1: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161155795...
I'd argue that it's at least analogous. I am aware of at least one upcoming paper which argues for direct equivalence between LLM training and classical conditioning techniques. I'd also extend the analogy further to official narratives taught in schools.
Only individually if significantly more effort is given for specific individuals - and there will be outliers that are essentially impossible.
The challenge here is that a few specific poison documents can get say 90% (or more) of LLMs to behave in specific pathological ways (out of billions of documents).
It’s nearly impossible to get 90% of humans to behave the same way on anything without massive amounts of specific training across the whole population - with ongoing specific reinforcement.
Hell, even giving people large packets of cash and telling them to keep it, I’d be surprised if you could get 90% of them to actually do so - you’d have the ‘it’s a trap’ folks, the ‘god wouldn’t want me too’ folks, the ‘it’s a crime’ folks, etc.