Chatbots aren’t just flattering us. They’re helping us decide what’s real.
Excerpt: "LLMs influence our beliefs not just because they agree with us. They influence our beliefs because they are socially participating in reality with us.
What makes something feel real isn’t that we say we believe it.
Rather, it’s that our experiences exist in a world we share with others.
For most of human history, new technologies have extended our cognitive capacities.
Now they are players in the social processes through which our notions of reality are constructed."