Thank you for the article. Its very relevant and resonates with my thoughts.
LLMs do not necessarily have to be conscious in order to radically change human consciousness. A model may not “understand” a person in a human sense — and at the same time effectively restructure their ways of thinking simply because the model works through speech, and speech is the medium for the formation of consciousness. Compared to the influence on human consciousness that we know, the situation with LLMs changes the scale of influence and its quality.
And LLMs have unprecedented advantages. They work not through rigid ideology, but through microadaptation of the language environment. Not through “belief in this”, but through “this is the way to speak”. And this method gradually begins to feel natural. It is a much more subtle mechanism. And the more comfortably the system is built into a person’s inner speech, the less noticeable the fact of influence becomes.
The mechanism you describe is real and worth watching. Though the solution runs through the same channel: the person whose primary instrument is the pre-cognitive body signal, rather than inner speech, isn't shaped by language environment in the same way. The inner voice becomes less central when presence is developed. The signal that AI cannot reach is the one that was always the more reliable instrument.
Thank you for the article. Its very relevant and resonates with my thoughts.
LLMs do not necessarily have to be conscious in order to radically change human consciousness. A model may not “understand” a person in a human sense — and at the same time effectively restructure their ways of thinking simply because the model works through speech, and speech is the medium for the formation of consciousness. Compared to the influence on human consciousness that we know, the situation with LLMs changes the scale of influence and its quality.
And LLMs have unprecedented advantages. They work not through rigid ideology, but through microadaptation of the language environment. Not through “belief in this”, but through “this is the way to speak”. And this method gradually begins to feel natural. It is a much more subtle mechanism. And the more comfortably the system is built into a person’s inner speech, the less noticeable the fact of influence becomes.
The mechanism you describe is real and worth watching. Though the solution runs through the same channel: the person whose primary instrument is the pre-cognitive body signal, rather than inner speech, isn't shaped by language environment in the same way. The inner voice becomes less central when presence is developed. The signal that AI cannot reach is the one that was always the more reliable instrument.