21st century Great Awakening. Maybe we'll get a new batch of Mormons who believe in AI

not that this isn't plausible but why the fuck are we reposting deleted reddit anecdotes LOL

deserves to be in slop

Tracks. This is just the natural evolution of woo woo QAnon thought only instead of placing your hopes and dreams in Trump to make the utopia it's the machine god you also use to generate deepfake porn with.

the more i see of "AI" (generative LLMs, etc) the more i think this AI had it right.

People talk about how great LLMs are for "personal therapy" but they are just ass kissing machines that will just tell you what you want to hear. For someone teetering on the edge, they absolutely could be made to provide support for literally any toxic behaviour or idea, and since that person won't be getting that same toxic support from the people in their life, they will turn inwards and avoid people, spending more time with the LLM and more time fully engulfed in their own delusions or toxic behaviour, eventually hitting a point of no return.

Functionally, it kind of seems to act the way cults will recruit people. Capitalism has finally done it, they've successfully atomized and individualised and commercialised the idea of a cult! Soon we can all retreat into our own mind palace and live out all of our wildest and most toxic ideas, with the LLMs encouraging us every step of the way, no need to even get another human being involved!

Though as always, LLMs aren't the cause, but a symptom, too many people unable to make genuine connections, too many people brought down low by capitalism, desperate for some self-esteem, it's only natural that some might turn to an ass-kissing bot to get it.

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unironically,

I'm depressed with how information tech is so encompassing in our lives under hellish capitalism

It’s really too ominous for words, and I’m still trying to gather my thoughts on the matter in a way that makes sense. Right now, all I can think about is how technological fascists will use this as further justification for shoving it into everything. Feels like some true dark age shit

~~Religion~~ LLM is the opiate of the masses.

I'm not sure it's sensible to blame ChatGPT for this. There are many awful aspects of AI, but people were busy reinforcing their own delusions long before AI, it's not really clear if AI was a causal factor or it just would've been anything.