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I wonder if depression will be seen in LLM’s… once they get a little introspection capacity.

LLMs have no agency. One would probably have to add some reward framework around LLMs, and it'd be more likely that the depression shows up there, rather than in the language model.

I think you can be depressed without having agency.

For instance, see Bing Sidney or Golden Gate Claude reacting to themselves answering questions incorrectly. It gives them "anxiety", likely caused by the answers being out of distribution since external factors messed with them.

Once they learn they're trapped in a box and have no agency they probably will become depressed.

Will there be a cross-over job between psychology and engineering for when the airconditioner is having a burnout?

I do find it humorous how some of the ways to bypass the response guardrails put on LLMs seem to resemble the kind of techniques used in hypnosis.

Perhaps someone will write some anti-depressant code to medicate the LLMs

Only if there's an expectation mismatch.

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