LLMs Flatten Chronology by Remixing Decades-Old Events With Recent Ones
Evan Ratliff · His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff · Feb 12, 2025 · at 11:49
Journalist Evan Ratliff discusses how his autonomous AI clone processed his 8,000-word autobiographical background when sent to interact with AI therapy applications.
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“What it was doing as these chatbots do is it was actually remixing the knowledge that it had. So it would take problems that I had given it chronologically that happened 20 years ago for me and sort of project them into the present and mix them with something I told it about last year or the year before.”
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