I'm sure there are a lot of "dark patterns" at play at the frontier model companies --- they're 10-figure businesses engaging directly with consumers and they're just a couple years old, so they're going to throw everything at the wall they can to see what sticks. I'm certainly not sticking up for OpenAI here. I'm just saying this article refutes its own central claim.

The distinction is whether it is intentional. I think your addiction to TikTok was intentional.

Sort of. I'm not sure the consequences of training LLM's based on users' upvoted responses were entirely understood? And at least one release got rolled back.

Exactly. Even this paper shows how model creativity significantly drops and the models experience mode collapse like we saw in GANs, but the companies keep using RLHF...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05587

the same way we used GPT-3. "the following is a conversation between the user and the assistant. ..."

GPT3 was originally just a completion model. You give it some text and it produced some more text, it wasn't tuned for multi-turn conversations.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions/c...