Never use AI for friendship, it's like admitting you only want yes-men in your life. I don't want to be around anyone who uses AI for emotional support.
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It's so much more effective when you keep things as neutral as possible. I will often ask it to tear apart my argument as though I am my opponent and use its tendency to align with the user against itself.
You would have better luck with a dating sim then AI as emotional support. Might inspire you to make a real friend.
Honestly, that should have been for the better. If it's meant to be a tool, I would much rather it behave like a tool, rather than trying to be my best friend, or an evil vizier trying to give me advice.
The fact that people got so attached to what is essentially a text generation algorithm that they were mourning its "death" is worrying, especially when it's one that OpenAI has proven themselves to be more than able to modify as they wish.
Just as concerning is OpenAI rolling back the update to make their model "friendlier", or that people were clamouring hand over fist to throw money at the company in the hopes of getting their "friend" back.
That can't possibly be good news, especially when the shareholders find out that they have an iron grip over a portion of their users.
Its disturbing to see how many people have created emotional connections to a word generstor.
Imaginary friends used to require atleast some modicum of creativity.
Boil the ocean a few more times to discover 1+1=3.
Won't they just let this guy go bankrupt already?
THE TECHbros are whoring themselves out to trump for govt contracts.
Think of the military applications if it finally works though
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.
All that money that could be spent improving the lives of poor people in need.
Stop it. Get some help.
That's pathetic
Just a few more bucks bro! I swear then it will be the revolutionary "AI" we promised it to be.
*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.
Nah, it's good that they ripped off that bandaid. Parasocial AI relationships are terrible.
The worst part is that they backstepped a bit and made it "friendlier".
Basically undoing that part.
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.
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A round of .308 costs like a dollar.
we definitely need to eradicate tech ceos from existence
just need ZUCKERBORG ANDROID to malfunction.
You misspelled billionaires.
But not all tech CEO's are billionaires...
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