It occurs to me that with all of the posturing regarding age verification "to protect children from…", there's an actually extremely vulnerable group, especially in the sycophantic LLM era, that few discuss: elders.

My grandmother, over a period of months, went from one of the brightest people I knew to someone who had a hard time distinguishing dreams from reality and fell victim to obvious scams, and she was an outlier of longevity among her peers. Part of that was luck, and part of that was the fact that she kept her brain active.

I haven't heard _anyone_ musing about the risks here. I can speculate how my nan would have fared had LLMs been available while she was alive, but this seems to be something that (more) serious (than me) people would be curious about.

Anyone?