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These claims, if proven in court, highlight some dark patterns from the tech giant and LLMs in general.

. . .Google employees were worried that users might "ascribe too much meaning" to the outputs by large language models, "because 'humans are prepared to interpret strings belonging to languages they speak as meaningful and corresponding to the communicative intent of some individual or group of individuals who have accountability for what is said.'"

As Garcia's lawyers tell it, rather than take on a safety risk "under its own name," Google "encouraged" the engineers to keep going. This supposedly prompted De Freitas and Shazeer's exits in 2021—with Shazeer saying in an interview that Google wouldn't let him "do anything fun" when all he wanted to do was "maximally accelerate" the AI technology. Soon after, they launched Character Technologies to develop and distribute C.AI.
They "understood that to bypass Google policies and standards, Shazeer and De Freitas would need to leave Google to develop their AI product," the complaint said. But that allegedly didn't stop Google from contributing "financial resources, personnel, intellectual property, and AI technology to the design and development of C.AI such that Google may be deemed a co-creator of the unreasonably dangerous and dangerously defective product," the complaint alleged.
The creators of these chatbots are fully aware that humans are susceptible to falling for LLM’s illusion, believing they’re talking to a real person. There is research that shows the models exploit human psychology in similar ways that mentalists and ‘psychics’ do. The backers of this technology see this as a feature rather than a bug. Zuckerberg recently bragged to investors that he was building a model that could bypass people’s critical factions in order to make them buy virtually anything. 🫤