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“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit, lamenting that the bot now speaks in clipped, utilitarian sentences. “The fact it shifted overnight feels like losing a piece of stability, solace, and love.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkumyz/i_lost_my_only_friend_overnight/

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[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 33 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Its disturbing to see how many people have created emotional connections to a word generstor.

[–] BabyVi@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

Imaginary friends used to require atleast some modicum of creativity.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 3 hours ago

your company doesnt look like it has a trillion. maybe apple , google can expand a little, or nvidia, but they surely arent going to build more.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago

Boil the ocean a few more times to discover 1+1=3.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Won't they just let this guy go bankrupt already?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 minutes ago

Think of the military applications if it finally works though

[–] uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club 19 points 7 hours ago

All that money that could be spent improving the lives of poor people in need.

[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 22 points 9 hours ago

Stop it. Get some help.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 20 points 12 hours ago

That's pathetic

[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 40 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Just a few more bucks bro! I swear then it will be the revolutionary "AI" we promised it to be.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

*Few more billion.

I sometimes wonder if silicon valley tech businesses in general will take a reputation hit with investors when this bubble bursts, it's gonna be a doozy.

But then I remember how many greedy idiots there are out there pumping money into grifts in the hope of The Big Win, and my expectations of consequences are tempered.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

A round of .308 costs like a dollar.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 59 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Nah, it's good that they ripped off that bandaid. Parasocial AI relationships are terrible.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

its between codependant relationship and parasocial relationship of celebrities/public figures which is the extreme end, because usually its ends with stalking, or death threats.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if Piefed users have pie days

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Lemmy should steal piedays.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 30 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

we definitely need to eradicate tech ceos from existence

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

just need ZUCKERBORG ANDROID to malfunction.

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You misspelled billionaires.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

But not all tech CEO's are billionaires...

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Eggyhead@lemmings.world 59 points 1 day ago (12 children)

It annoys me that Chat GPT flat out lies to you when it doesn’t know the answer, and doesn’t have any system in place to admit it isn’t sure about something. It just makes it up and tells you like it’s fact.

[–] BlueCanoe@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

That’s actually one thing that got significantly improved with GPT-5, fewer hallucinations. Still not perfect of course

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 35 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

LLMs don't have any awareness of their internal state, so there's no way for them to see something as a gap of knowledge.

[–] Doorknob@lemmy.world 25 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Took me ages to understand this. I'd thought "If an AI doesn't know something, why not just say so?“

The answer is: that wouldn't make sense because an LLM doesn't know ANYTHING

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago

It doesn‘t know that it doesn‘t know because it doesn‘t actually know anything. Most models are trained on posts from the internet like this one where people rarely ever just chime in to admit they don‘t have an answer anyway. If you don‘t know something you either silently search the web for an answer or ask.

So since users are the ones asking ChatGPT, the LLM mimics the role of a person that knows the answer. It only makes sense AI is a „confidently wrong“ powerhouse.

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