>Does anyone here use LLMs like ChatGPT or Grok?
Yes. ChatGPT, Grok and Deepseek.
>What do you use them for?
I've generally used it for work, study, everyday situations, as a substitute for a web search engine, to debate and improve my positions or address biases, to search for material (articles or books) and to learn about new authors or delve deeper into those I already know.
>Mock debates?
Yes.
>Short stories?
No.
>Discussing controversial ideas?
Yes.
>Fact checking popular claims?
Yes.
>Perhaps asking for an alternate perspective on a deep-seated belief?
Yes.
>Just for entertainment?
Yes.
>In my LLM drafted universe, I've devoured a willing-to-be-eaten Pop star, digested her, composted her remains into humanure, fertilized a garden with them and then had in-depth conversations about music with her ghost. While it is a simulation of conversation that doesn't reflect the actual's person's views and opinions especially if s/he's of any celebrity, these prompts can scratch the itch of a particular niche. Of course, there is the added risk of having fragments of your brain on a cloud that ultimately is not owned by you
Ok, Nick Land.
>Of course, there is the added risk of having fragments of your brain on a cloud that ultimately is not owned by you.
And what is that which is part and can be transferred? The brain...?
It's a flawed metaphor and essentially meaningless. Something purely material can only be divided, but only by its smaller parts of equal material character. Unless the brain produces or interacts with something that is not equally material, at least in terms of mass. "Information," computational cognitivists would say, but we should ask them, what, then, is the difference between a thought and data?
And their response simply states, "We're not saying that the brain is really like a computer, only that it resembles one in many ways."
