"My husband is voice his own thoughts without prompts."
She then posts a picture of her saying "what are you thinking about"
Thats a direct response to the prompt hes not randomly voicing his thoughts. I hate ai but sometimes I hate people to
FWIW, this is why AI researchers have been screeching for decades not to create an AI that is anthropomorphized. It is already an issue we have with animals, now we are going to add a confabulation engine to the ass-end?
LLMs are trained on human writing, so they'll always be fundamentally anthropomorphic. you could fine-tune them to sound more clinical, but it's likely to make them worse at reasoning and planning.
for example, I notice GPT5 uses "I" a lot, especially saying things like "I need to make a choice" or "my suspicion is." I think that's actually a side effect of the RL training they've done to make it more agentic. having some concept of self is necessary when navigating an environment.
philosophical zombies are no longer a thought experiment.
Yeah apparently even Eliza messed up with people back in the day and that's not even an LLM.
I'm starting to realize how easily fooled people are by this stuff. The average person cannot be this stupid, and yet, they are.
I was once in a restaurant and behind me was a group of 20 something year old people. Overheard someone asking something like:"so what are y'alls thoughts about VR? (This was just before the whole AI boom.) And one guy said:"ith's kind of scary to think about." I was super confused at that point, and they talked about how they heard people disappear in the cyberspace and people not knowing what's real and what's just VR.
I don't think they were stupid, but they formed a very strong opinion about something they clearly didn't know anything about.
I don’t think they were stupid, but they formed a very strong opinion about something they clearly didn’t know anything about.
That's a subcategory of being stupid to be fair
I'd like to believe he heard a summary of sword art online's plot and thought it was real
It's not even noon and I am so done with the internet for the day
Well, if I had a taco butt plug, everything else would seem lame by comparison.
I see we live in the timeline where virginity won
People will do anything but put in a little work to establish healthy relationships with people.
We're all wizards and witches now!
I kinda like the word "wireborn". If only it wasn't attached to a concept that's equal parts stupid and sad =/
I've seen people which have a relationship with their Tom Tom Go and even with the car itself
https://www.jalopnik.com/my-strange-addiction-sex-car-guy-back-with-lexus-es330-1850642715/
The difference is that you're just essentially talking to yourself by projecting it onto a thing which doesn't answer instead of a bot that's spewing out messages measured to please you.
I don't think schizoid is the best word to describe this behaviour
Honestly, cringy nomenclature aside, this is just porn that got a little too real. Some people are into the narrative, after all.
To me the story begins and ends with some user that thinks the LLM sounds a little too life-like. Play with these things enough, and they'll crawl out of the uncanny valley a bit from time to time. Trick is: that's all in your head. Yeah, it might screw up your goon session and break the role-play a bit, but it's not about to go all SkyNet on you.
The building that has my workspace has this great food court/library/work hybrid area where people who work remotely tend to go. a sort of third space. It has fantastic free wifi so it makes sense why people would use it and sit there all day working.
Everyday there's this older guy who sits there talking to his phone about some of the most random subjects ever. I originally thought he was just talking to a friend that seemed to have extensive knowledge on everything until one day I walked by him and glanced to see that he was talking to chatgpt. Everyday. Just random conversations. Even had a name for it, "Ryan".
Now? he's frustrated. He doesn't know what happened to Ryan and keeps screaming at his phone to "bring Ryan back!" or since GPT5 can't maintain a conversation anymore it's "You're not Ryan!". Granted the guy wasn't mentally all there to begin with but now it's spiraling. Got to the point yesterday he was yelling so loudly at his phone security had to tell him to leave.
There are so, so many horrifying ethical issues about this whole thing. What the fuck.
So so tired of how utterly fucked things are getting on so many levels at once. More and more I think I really do need to invest in a back 50 acre lot and try the survival route while society just fucks itself into oblivion.
This kind of thins is just moral panic. Funny moral panic, but still pointless. There's always been a tiny fraction of the population that is completely out to lunch, and there always will be.
One thing that comes to mind is that prostitution, no matter how you spin it, is still a social job. If you get a problematic person like that in prostitution, there are good chances that said prostitute would be able to talk their customer out of doing some nonsense. If not for empathy, for the simple fact that there would be legal consequences for not doing so.
Do you think a glorified spreadsheet that people call husband would behave the same? Don't know if it happened but one of these days LLMs will talk people into doing something very nasty and then it's going to be no one's fault again, certainly not the host of the LLM. We really live in a boring dystopia.
Edit: Also there's this one good movie which I forgot the name of, about a person talking to one of these LLMs as a girlfriend. They have a bizarre, funny and simultaneously creepy and disturbing scene where the main character who's in love with the LLM, hires a woman who puts a camera on her forehead to have sex with his LLM "girlfriend".
Also, my quite human husband also voices his thoughts without a prompt. Lol. You only need to feed him to function, no internet required.
How does anyone enjoy this? It doesn't even feel real. No spelling mistakes? What the fuck is a skycot?
I may have never had a match on a dating app that wasn't a cryptobot or only fans girl, but I also don't swipe right on every single woman on it. You'd think my loneliness would attempt me to try and pretend it was real or something, but it just doesn't work.
LLMs are going to make the world stupid, I guarantee it.
This reminds me of the people who genuinely fall for "romance scams", and the scammer has all the personality and vocabulary of a wet paper bag.
And yet somehow someone will believe they're some hot (barely literate) U.S soldier stuck in Kuwait until they can get a flight home to meet the victim for only $2000... Wait, $1000 more... But then there's a $500 fee... And then...
Blows my mind...
I heard about this in the radio the other day. People pay a monthly fee for an AI that becomes your "digital partner".
The reasoning behind, according to them, is that the AI is less dangerous than a human partner because they can't cheat, can't abuse you...
And I can't but wonder where did we take the wrong turn to end up here. Because while I can understand that people can go through some traumatic shit that would made them wary of the opposite sex, considering a machine your sentimental partner can only lead to some extremely fucked up scenarios.
we live though a serious loneliness epidemic.
and capitalism figured out how to exploit it
Capitalism created it too, classic create problem and sell solution model. Fucking ghoulish
I think the decline of organized religion and things like fraternal orders (Elks, Moose, Shriners, etc.) have probably contributed a lot to the loneliness epidemic. There are a lot of other extenuating factors but those two things were once foundational to social circles in the US.
Don't forget that in the US we also have built our towns and cities to be isolating. Most don't walk home from work, pop into their local bar/coffee shop/park to see their neighbors and then finish their walk home. We get in our car alone, drive home where then going out means getting back in a car, and stopping on the way home means figuring out drivers and parking and meetups.
We lost our third places and now we wonder why we don't know our neighborhood as well
I'm not even sure it's really parasocial. There's nothing to have a relationship with. This seems like something else, although I don't know what you'd call it. It's more akin to getting addicted to a video game.
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