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[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Parasocial Attachment to a Hallucination Box meticulously configured to lie at you as convincingly as possible. It deals you a drug that you mistake for "validation" by spitting out words statistically weighted to come across in a flattering light. It understands you, itself, and the world even less than Cargo Cults comprehend Aerospace Engineering. Gorging yourself on the slop it shits out every time you type something and hit [enter] will leave your imagination in paralysis. You'll only have yourself to blame. Don't do it. You'll be happier without it.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

given the amount of unhappily married boomers and younger i’ve seen, kinda hard not to still see this as a net positive

and i say this as someone happily married for more than a decade but i feel like it’s survivorship bias on my part to ignore the vast amount of people with miserable relationships

[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago) (2 children)

You think people having some fake superficial connection with a mathematical algorithm is better than people having real connections (whether they are good or bad, both are at least REAL experiences)?

If you think it's a good development, humanity is going extinct. Or at least, the people that get swayed by these models.

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

... I admit this is a rather bitter thought and I'm not exactly thrilled that it popped into my head, but I suddenly wondered if this will potentially become (if it hasn't already) an intentional way to cull the suckers and gullible saps from the population. When someone lets themselves be seduced by an inanimate object, I could swear there's some kind of pattern emerging where it seems like such persons are rather ... dim. Sometimes they are also already cognitively compromised by ideologies that exploit the human predisposition for magical thinking. They succumb to the saccharine sycophantic siren songs the chatbots feed them about being prophets, seers, or chosen ones, and get talked into walking into traffic or leaping off a building and stuff like that BECAUSE they spent their whole lives up to that point willfully kneeling at the feet of one of the many denominations of the mainstream Abrahamic cults for instance.

I'd call it natural selection except it's difficult to ever possibly be LESS natural than a language model transformer algorithm serving as some poor doomed fool's shoddy mimicry of a lifecoach.

Please understand i am NOT SAYING that anything about this is "good", however!! These are just some DARK AS FUCK CLOUDS from horizon to horizon and I'm desperate to see some kind of silver lining ._.

So far all that's come to me is, "maybe the interesting people will survive. Maybe the smart ones. Maybe the most rational ones. Maybe there won't be as big of a crowd of idiots drowning out the people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about.."

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

at least the fake relationships don’t bring neglected kids into the mix

honestly easily better than whatever set of absuove relationships out there

[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 1 points 13 minutes ago

AI relationships themselves are abusive. They are the ultimate gas-lighting machines.

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