• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    9 days ago

    But how? The thing is utterly dumb. How do you even have a conversation without quitting in frustration from it’s obviously robotic answers?

    But then there’s people who have romantic and sexual relationships with inanimate objects, so I guess nothing new.

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        I use chat gpt to find issues in my code when I am at my wits end. It is super smart, manages to find the typo I made in seconds.

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      In some ways, it’s like Wikipedia but with a gigantic database of the internet in general (stupidity included). Because it can string together confident-sounding sentences, people think it’s this magical machine that understands broad contexts and can provide facts and summaries of concepts that take humans lifetimes to study.

      It’s the conspiracy theorists’ and reactionaries’ dream: you too can be as smart and special as the educated experts, and all you have to do is ask a machine a few questions.

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      How do you even have a conversation without quitting in frustration from it’s obviously robotic answers?

      Talking with actual people online isn’t much better. ChatGPT might sound robotic, but it’s extremely polite, actually reads what you say, and responds to it. It doesn’t jump to hasty, unfounded conclusions about you based on tiny bits of information you reveal. When you’re wrong, it just tells you what you’re wrong about - it doesn’t call you an idiot and tell you to go read more. Even in touchy discussions, it stays calm and measured, rather than getting overwhelmed with emotion, which becomes painfully obvious in how people respond. The experience of having difficult conversations online is often the exact opposite. A huge number of people on message boards are outright awful to those they disagree with.

      Here’s a good example of the kind of angry, hateful message you’ll never get from ChatGPT - and honestly, I’d take a robotic response over that any day.

      I think these people were already crazy if they’re willing to let a machine shovel garbage into their mouths blindly. Fucking mindless zombies eating up whatever is big and trendy.

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        Hey buddy, I’ve had enough of you and your sensible opinions. Meet me in the parking lot of the Wallgreens on the corner of Coursey and Jones Creek in Baton Rouge on april 7th at 10 p.m. We’re going to fight to the death, no holds barred, shopping cart combos allowed, pistols only, no scope 360, tag team style, entourage allowed.

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      The fact that it’s not a person is a feature, not a bug.

      openai has recently made changes to the 4o model, my trusty goto for lore building and drunken rambling, and now I don’t like it. It now pretends to have emotions, and uses the slang of brainrot influencers. very “fellow kids” energy. It’s also become a sicophant, and has lost its ability to be critical of my inputs. I see these changes as highly manipulative, and it offends me that it might be working.

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      Yeah, the more I use it, the more I regret asking it for assistance. LLMs are the epitome of confidentiality incorrect.

      It’s good fun watching friends ask it stuff they’re already experienced in. Then the pin drops

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      At first glance I thought you wrote “inmate objects”, but I was not really relieved when I noticed what you actually wrote.

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    people tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI

    Preying on the vulnerable is a feature, not a bug.

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      I kind of see it more as a sign of utter desperation on the human’s part. They lack connection with others at such a high degree that anything similar can serve as a replacement. Kind of reminiscent of Harlow’s experiment with baby monkeys. The videos are interesting from that study but make me feel pretty bad about what we do to nature. Anywho, there you have it.

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        And the amount of connections and friends the average person has has been in free fall for decades…

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        That utter-desparation is engineered into our civilization.

        What happens when you prevent the “inferiors” from having living-wage, while you pour wallowing-wealth on the executives?

        They have to overwork, to make ends meet, is what, which breaks parenting.

        Then, when you’ve broken parenting for a few generatios, the manufactured ocean-of-attachment-disorder manufactures a plethora of narcissism, which itself produces mass-shootings.

        2024 was down 200 mass-shootings, in the US of A, from the peak of 700/year, to only 500.

        You are seeing engineered eradication of human-worth, for moneyarchy.

        Isn’t ruling-over-the-destruction-of-the-Earth the “greatest thrill-ride there is”?

        We NEED to do objective calibration of the harm that policies & political-forces, & put force against what is actually harming our world’s human-viability.

        Not what the marketing-programs-for-the-special-interest-groups want us acting against, the red herrings…

        They’re getting more vicious, we need to get TF up & begin fighting for our species’ life.

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      These same people would be dating a body pillow or trying to marry a video game character.

      The issue here isn’t AI, it’s losers using it to replace human contact that they can’t get themselves.

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    those who used ChatGPT for “personal” reasons — like discussing emotions and memories — were less emotionally dependent upon it than those who used it for “non-personal” reasons, like brainstorming or asking for advice.

    That’s not what I would expect. But I guess that’s cuz you’re not actively thinking about your emotional state, so you’re just passively letting it manipulate you.

    Kinda like how ads have a stronger impact if you don’t pay conscious attention to them.

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      AI and ads… I think that is the next dystopia to come.

      Think of asking chatGPT about something and it randomly looks for excuses* to push you to buy coca cola.

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        That sounds really rough, buddy, I know how you feel, and that project you’re working is really complicated.

        Would you like to order a delicious, refreshing Coke Zero™️?

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        that is not a thought i needed in my brain just as i was trying to sleep.

        what if gpt starts telling drunk me to do things? how long would it take for me to notice? I’m super awake again now, thanks

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      Its a roundabout way of writing “its really shit for this usecase and people that actively try to use it that way quickly find that out”

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    I plugged this into gpt and it couldn’t give me a coherent summary.
    Anyone got a tldr?

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    I know a few people who are genuinely smart but got so deep into the AI fad that they are now using it almost exclusively.

    They seem to be performing well, which is kind of scary, but sometimes they feel like MLM people with how pushy they are about using AI.

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      Most people don’t seem to understand how “dumb” ai is. And it’s scary when i read shit like that they use ai for advice.

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        People also don’t realize how incredibly stupid humans can be. I don’t mean that in a judgemental or moral kind of way, I mean that the educational system has failed a lot of people.

        There’s some % of people that could use AI for every decision in their lives and the outcome would be the same or better.

        That’s even more terrifying IMO.

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    I think these people were already crazy if they’re willing to let a machine shovel garbage into their mouths blindly. Fucking mindless zombies eating up whatever is big and trendy.

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    Same type of addiction of people who think the Kardashians care about them or schedule their whole lives around going to Disneyland a few times a year.

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      Yes, but what this movie failed to anticipate was the visceral anger I feel when I hear that stupid AI generated voice. I’ve seen too many fake videos or straight up scams using it that I now instinctively mistrust any voice that sounds like male or femaleAI.wav.

      Could never fall in love with AI voice, would always assume it was sent to steal my data so some kid can steal my identify.

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        I thought the voice in Her was customized to individual preference. Which I know is hardly relevant.

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          It was also a true AI wasn’t it? It ran locally and was never turned off, so conversations with it were private and it continued to “exist” and develop by itself.

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    Correlation does not equal causation.

    You have to be a little off to WANT to interact with ChatGPT that much in the first place.

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        I use it many times a day for coding and solving technical issues. But I don’t recognize what the article talks about at all. There’s nothing affective about my conversations, other than the fact that using typical human expression (like “thank you”) seems to increase the chances of good responses. Which is not surprising since it matches the patterns that you want to evoke in the training data better.

        That said, yeah of course I become “addicted” to it and have a harder time coping without it, because it’s part of my workflow just like Google. How well would anybody be able to do things in tech or even life in general without a search engine? ChatGPT is just a refinement of that.

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        I use it to generate a little function in a programming language I don’t know so that I can kickstart what I need to look for.

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        There’s a few people I know who use it for boilerplate templates for certain documents, who then of course go through it with a fine toothed comb to add relevant context and fix obvious nonsense.

        I can only imagine there are others who aren’t as stringent with the output.

        Heck, my primary use for a bit was custom text adventure games, but ChatGPT has a few weaknesses in that department (very, very conflict adverse for beating up bad guys, etc.). There’s probably ways to prompt engineer around these limitations, but a) there’s other, better suited AI tools for this use case, b) text adventure was a prolific genre for a bit, and a huge chunk made by actual humans can be found here - ifdb.org, c) real, actual humans still make them (if a little artsier and moody than I’d like most of the time), so eventually I stopped.

        Did like the huge flexibility v. the parser available in most made by human text adventures, though.

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    I tried that Replika app before AI was trendy and immediately picked on the fact that AI companion thing is literal garbage.

    I may not like how my friends act but I still respect them as people so there is no way I’ll fall this low and desperate.

    Maybe about time we listen to that internet wisdom about touching some grass!