Aaron<p>Just saw an article about how people are talking more like ChatGPT.</p><p>Bananas are cloned. When a pest or fungus evolves a way around the banana's defenses, the entire crop is destroyed due to a lack of variation.</p><p>We're already well aware of the dangers of monoculture. They have been discussed not just with respect to agriculture but also to *human* diversity as well. In particular, it is well-understood that neurodiversity and cultural diversity strengthen, rather than weaken, the performance of teams.</p><p>What sorts of vulnerabilities are we creating in our society when so many of us spend time conversing with and learning from a bot that follows the same patterns of speech and "reasoning", with the same assumptions, biases, and failure modes?</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurodiversity</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/monoculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monoculture</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/variation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>variation</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a><br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bias</span></a></p>