I think this is a helpful change. I, like many here, have serious ethical reservations when it comes to LLMs, but an old man once told me “people don’t get better by making them feel worse.” People shouldn’t be made into punching bags. Their shit choices should be called out, slop should be discouraged out as a waste of everyone’s time and attention, but we’ve had slop for way longer than LLMs. Echo chambers don’t make people better, no matter how right you think your side of the room might be. If you’re not listening and thinking, you’re part of the problem. Being “right” doesn’t mean shit if you can’t also be kind.

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