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Will, listening to a very narrow group of people (the ones you talk to) exposes you to a whole other set of risks.
The real key is education & (legit) trust in institutions.
I just had the realization that chatgpt keeps me addicted by using my curiousity…
That's not quite the same, though notifications and spam through the app would count.
The corpo LLMs do have a huge sycophancy bias, which would contribute as an addictive effect, I guess (and get people down strange psycological rabbit holes like you see in the news). I'd suggest switching between different models, especially the 'niche' open-weights finetunes on OpenRouter and such, that aren't so sycophantic. And also aren't OpenAI, because Altman is literally a blood sucking con artist.