Humanity as gaslighting victims of LLMs? Are we being gaslit (gaslighted? gaslightified? gaslitted?) by LLMs? Are they subtly and not-so-subtly guiding our behavior? No, not really, to the first question. And "Well, duh" is a spot-on answer, I think, to the second. Maybe you've heard of this? -->> " Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists " https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/ ChatGPT started a pattern of repeated (if somewhat logically-arrived at) hallucinations, telling thousands of people that an online music scanner app had a certain feature, which it, in fact, did not. This went on long enough, that the app's programmer decided to go with the flow and add the feature. Since people were expecting it, he felt he should provide it. But the customers would not have expected it, had they not asked a hallucinating LLM. Certainly there are the apocryphal stor...