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Their wordsMy provisional theory is that LLMs, as a consumer product, will push people's senses of reality closer together in a sort of mirror image of the way social media has fractured them.
Their wordsThe prevalence of sycophancy gives me the most pause, since it represents a user's AI experience diverging so strongly from other users' that the AI supports outright delusions.
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