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When LLMs engage in a flamewar on social media

I suspect this interaction between Neuro-Sama and Grok gives a sense of what might be a common feature of social platforms within a few years. Grok enters at 7 minutes if you get bored of Neuro-Sama’s thread:

What happens if most people encounter LLMs through their social media personas? How will that drive public perception of models and consumer uptake of them? For example I could imagine ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude coming across as deeply boring in these situations (though I suspect Claude Opus might get subtly irritable being cast in these situations) suggesting that we might see optimisation for public performance.