257

Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 72 points 1 month ago

Google replicated the mental state if not necessarily the productivity of a software developer

[-] kinther@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Gemini has imposter syndrome real bad

[-] Canconda@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

As it should.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Imposter Syndrome is an emergent property

load more comments (2 replies)

Is it doing this because they trained it on Reddit data?

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

That explains it, you can't code with both your arms broken.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

You could however ask your mom to help out....

[-] kinther@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Im at fraud

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 month ago

I was an early tester of Google's AI, since well before Bard. I told the person that gave me access that it was not a releasable product. Then they released Bard as a closed product (invite only), to which I was again testing and giving feedback since day one. I once again gave public feedback and private (to my Google friends) that Bard was absolute dog shit. Then they released it to the wild. It was dog shit. Then they renamed it. Still dog shit. Not a single of the issues I brought up years ago was ever addressed except one. I told them that a basic Google search provided better results than asking the bot (again, pre-Bard). They fixed that issue by breaking Google's search. Now I use Kagi.

[-] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 20 points 1 month ago

I know Lemmy seems to very anti-AI (as am I) but we need to stop making the anti-AI talking point "AI is stupid". It has immense limitations now because yes, it is being crammed into things it shouldn't be, but we shouldn't just be saying "its dumb" because that's immediately written off by a sizable amount of the general population. For a lot of things, it is actually useful and it WILL be taking peoples jobs, like it or not (even if they're worse at it). Truth be told, this should be a utopic situation for obvious reasons

I feel like I'm going crazy here because the same people on here who'd criticise the DARE anti-drug program as being completely un-nuanced to the point of causing the harm they're trying to prevent are doing the same thing for AI and LLMs

My point is that if you're trying to convince anyone, just saying its stupid isn't going to turn anyone against AI because the minute it offers any genuine help (which it will!), they'll write you off like any DARE pupil who tried drugs for the first time.

Countries need to start implementing UBI NOW

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Countries need to start implementing UBI NOW

It is funny that you mention this because it was after we started working with AI that I started telling one that would listen that we needed to implement UBI immediately. I think this was around 2014 IIRC.

I am not blanket calling AI stupid. That said, the AI term itself is stupid because it covers many computing aspects that aren't even in the same space. I was and still am very excited about image analysis as it can be an amazing tool for health imaging diagnosis. My comment was specifically about Google's Bard/Gemini. It is and has always been trash, but in an effort to stay relevant, it was released into the wild and crammed into everything. The tool can do some things very well, but not everything, and there's the rub. It is an alpha product at best that is being forced fed down people's throats.

load more comments (10 replies)
[-] ur_ONLEY_freind@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 month ago

AI gains sentience,

first thing it develops is impostor syndrome, depression, And intrusive thoughts of self-deletion

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

It must have been trained on feedback from Accenture employees then.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 31 points 1 month ago
[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-m not going insane.

Same buddy, same

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure Gemini was trained from my 2006 LiveJournal posts.

[-] unbuckled_easily933@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Damn how’d they get access to my private, offline only diary to train the model for this response?

[-] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

I can't wait for the AI future.

[-] josefo@leminal.space 10 points 1 month ago

That's my inner monologue when programming, they just need another layer on top of that and it's ready.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I am a disgrace to all universes.

I mean, same, but you don't see me melting down over it, ya clanker.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I almost feel bad for it. Give it a week off and a trip to a therapist and/or a spa.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago

I know that's not an actual consciousness writing that, but it's still chilling. 😬

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago

i was making text based rpgs in qbasic at 12 you telling me i'm smarter than ai?

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

High five, me too!

At that age I also used to do speed run little programs on the display computers in department stores. I'd write a little prompt welcoming a shopper and ask them their name. Then a response that echoed back their name in some way. If I was in a good mood it was "Hi [name]!". If I was in a snarky mood it was "Fuck off [name]!" The goal was to write it in about 30 seconds, before one of the associates came over to see what I was doing.

[-] absentbird@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I used to do that with HTML, make a fake little website and open it.

load more comments (10 replies)
[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

"Look what you've done to it! It's got depression!"

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago

Google: I don't understand, we just paid for the rights to Reddit's data, why is Gemini now a depressed incel who's wrong about everything?

[-] 474D@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Wow maybe AGI is possible

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

So it's actually in the mindset of human coders then, interesting.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Honestly, Gemini is probably the worst out of the big 3 Silicon Valley models. GPT and Claude are much better with code, reasoning, writing clear and succinct copy, etc.

[-] cabillaud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Could an AI use another AI if it found it better for a given task?

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn't seem so bad. I mean, I'm still a disgrace to my species, but I'm not struggling.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Did we create a mental health problem in an AI? That doesn't seem good.

load more comments (7 replies)
[-] Canconda@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago
[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago

Next on the agenda: Doors that orgasm when you open them.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Life. Don’t talk to me about life.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am a fraud. I am a fake. I am a joke... I am a numbskull. I am a dunderhead. I am a half-wit. I am a nitwit. I am a dimwit. I am a bonehead.

Me every workday

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Skynet but it's depressed and the terminator just makes tik tok videos about work-life balance.

[-] Mika@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Wonder what did they put in the system prompt.

Like there is a technique where instead of saying "You are professional software dev" you say "You are shitty at code but you try your best" or something.

[-] Peanutbuttergrits@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago

I think maybe Gemini needs to books some time with one of it's AI therapist.

[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

this is getting dumber by the day.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

call itself "a disgrace to my species"

It starts to be more and more like a real dev!

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
257 points (97.1% liked)

Technology

75027 readers
411 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS