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Pretty small sample size despite being a large dataset that they pulled from, its still the dataset of just 19 people.
AI sucks in a lot of ways sure, but this feels like fud.
The hugeness is probably
That's a lot of messages
If that's only 19 users, that's around 250 conversations per user 🤔
...and about 82 messages per conversation. Also, at least half of all the messages are from the user to the AI, and the other half are from the AI to the user, meaning around 41 messages from the user per conversation.
Yeah, I also thought about that, looks like a lot, but I guess users in this case differ from ordinary usage
I remember reading my old states book that said a minimum of 30 points needed for normal distribution. Also typically these small sets about proof of concept, so yeah you still got a point.
It's about 300 samples for an estimate of the distribution with a 95% confidence iirc. That's assuming the samples are representative (unbiased) and 95% confidence doesn't mean it's within 95% of reality, but that 5% of tests run in such a way would be expected to be inaccurate (and there's no way of knowing for sure which one this particular sample is because even a meta study will have such an error rate, though you can increase the confidence with more samples or studies, just never to 100% unless you study every possible sample, including future ones).
Thanks, you saved me a click 😐
It's not really ethical to just yoink people's chats and study them
Tell that to the advertizing companies.
"We received chat logs directly from people who self-identified as having some psychological harm related to chatbot usage (e.g. they felt deluded) via an IRB-approved Qualtrics survey "
I wonder if the headline was written by an AI
.....fud?
fud: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. A tactic for denigrating a thing, usually by implication of hypothetical or exaggerated harms, often in vague language that is either tautological or not falsifiable.
It’s crypto bro speak.
What? The term FUD has been around since at least the 90s, though I think significantly older than that
Microsoft are masters of it, their whole business plan is dependent on it
It predates crypto by nearly 100 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty%2C_and_doubt#Etymology
and yet it doesn't stop being their jargon
They also use the words "the," "at," "is," and "it," but that doesn't make it their jargon.
We really need to stop condemning entire words just because some people we don't like used them...
I can't tell you how many times I've been accused of using a "dogwhistle" because I used a totally innocuous word in accordance with its literal meaning without having any idea that it's apparently been co-opted by some group of hate-filled extremists because I don't follow those groups and I don't know their lingo...
Like, soon we won't have any words left that we're still allowed to use. Language is already getting dumbed down, and I'm tired of walking on eggshells lest I say a word that could potentially be misinterpreted in light of a vague association to a different term that has a double-entendre that some niche circles use in some reprehensible way in their ostensibly secret code, or that I didn't know was a euphemism...
it's not exclusively their jargon, but it is their jargon.
it's jargon, not common parlance.
you're having an argument with me about something other people have said to you. please don't put words in my mouth.
I'm not arguing with you, at what point did I claim you said anything that I disagree with?
I was just using your comment as a springboard.
Maybe I should have replied to fartmaster instead, but done is done...
sorry, maybe i'm reading tone into your italics that isn't there. tone over text is hard and i don't sleep a lot.
It's understandable. I was frustrated, and the italics were meant to express my frustration. I just didn't intend for it to feel directed at you... my bad...
hey no worries. i've been getting a lot of frustration directed at me. maybe that's why i misinterpreted it.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you probably don't deserve it. I've seen your other comments and you seem conscientious, relatable, and like you're doing the best you can just like the rest of us...
oh i'm not talking about here, just talking about life
Life is... brutal...
It doesn't have to be. We humans are capable of being civilized, we've done it before. For a while I thought world peace was within our reach, at least in my lifetime, but now I'm not so sure...
Even on the smaller scale, people don't have to be so cruel to each other. It's a choice. A deeply-ingrained, generational pattern, maybe, but a choice to wake up each day and continue living in that inertia.
Of course, it takes more than an individual to break that tide. It's a collective choice. But collective choices are just the sum of all the individual choices that reach critical mass...
I'm just absently philosophizing... don't mean to blow smoke up your ass...
Oh they tried that it doesn't make the hole work any better
😳
there are some really weird medical tests
It’s literally just sales speak. They also say coin all the time, and that doesn’t mean I can’t call something a coin without being associated with crypto bros.
i mean jargon can be a shibboleth. the negative association is just kind of for using sales speak too.
*hugely funded?
Are you unironically saying “fud”
Where are you hearing it so much? (And ideally can you describe it in a little more detail than saying it's crypto bros again?)
Crypto bros are infamous for describing any criticism as FUD, no matter the criticism. It's like a verbal tic. Here are some examples from the past couple days on the premiere Bitcoin social network:
The term FUD has been around longer & broader than that. But thanks for the explanation.
I have no argument there, the phrase was definitely not created by them, it's just been beaten to death by them.
They've also overused a bunch of ancient and unfunny memes well past their expiration dates, and universally adopted a collection of depressingly dull and incorrect slogans. "FUD" is just the one that has interesting meaning outside their sad sphere.
No one follows those losers enough to know that except you. Apparently.
This is weirdly passive-aggressive. What are you trying to imply, that everyone who knows something you don't like is bad, regardless of why?
Expecting someone who doesn't follow cryptobro spaces to associate the term FUD with cryptobros and therefore stop using it is... kinda ignorant.
I agree with you, and hopefully my posts don't come across like that's what I believe. If anything, I'd prefer all phrases to be taken back from them.
I'm just trying to describe the other half of where different people see the word, and why they might come to different, incomplete conclusions.
You're fine, it's mostly fartmaster who's making problematic overgeneralizations...
While I am aware that it's a common crypto shill term, I think by this point crypto has fallen out of the mainstream, so their usage of terms doesn't really matter.
And as others have pointed out, the term FUD has been used at least since the birth of WWW/modern internet.