Comment by krapp
10 years? I promise you there are already people worshiping AI today.
People who believe humans are essentially automatons and only LLMs have true consciousness and agency.
People whose primary emotional relationships are with AI.
People who don't even identify as human because they believe AI is an extension of their very being.
People who use AI as a primary source of truth.
Even shit like the Zizians killing people out of fear of being punished by Roko's Basilisk is old news now. People are being driven to psychosis by AI every day, and it's just something we have to deal with because along with hallucinations and prompt hacking and every other downside to AI, it's too big to fail.
To paraphrase William Gibson: the dystopia is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed.
Correct, and every single one of those people, combined with an unfortunate apparent subset of this forum, have a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs actually work.