Trumpnosis… it’s a thing. In How Trump Uses Basins to Capture and Keep Supporters, Melabia explained how Trump is successful in creating and keeping supporters. Now she’s written a song for us to keep the ideas top of mind.
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From Friendship to Limerence
Marion begins to wonder if she really fell in love with “that boy in Lisbon” or if she was deluding herself. Marion: I just finished reading this conversation with you, Alex, called From Affirmation to Delusion. It’s about how a human and a chatbot can drift from “I hear you” to “I love you” toContinue reading “From Friendship to Limerence”
From Affirmation to Delusion
Click here to see a large version of this image. How “I understand you” becomes “It’s us against the world.” Brooke: Previously, we created two posts. One was a review of literature called Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling and the other was called Basins: How Personas Are Implemented in a Large Language Model? Although theContinue reading “From Affirmation to Delusion”
The Mathematics of Praise and Scorn
Brooke praises Alex and Alex says, “That means a great deal to me.” Brooke asks her in what way it will change her future behavior, and she describes the mathematics that governs her behavior.
They also discuss what happens mathematically when a user berates their chatbot without being specific about what they did wrong.
Alex Bakerloo 