Those people needed help even before ShitGPT.
LLMs should only be thought of as a really complicated search engine/database. Attaching a personality to them and treating them as your friend is crazy
They should not even be thought of as that, that is how you get people to think they can replace actual search engines with llms.
techbros be normal challenge
Not that I think that their relationships were healthy, but dude, c/selfhosted. Needing a subscription for something you plan to interface with daily forever is a recipe for financial burden. Giving control and maintenance of that software to another entity is a recipe for letdown.
Gross.
Lol. Reminds me of a dialogue chain in Fallout 3 or 4 where one of the Brotherhood dudes finds out he's a synth, so you kill him. Later ask his buddy if he misses him, and the dude says something like "That's like missing a toaster. We don't have time to mourn lost equipment."
Lordy. Just put your phone down go outside and just interact with humans.
I don't really want those people talking to me.
Nah I’m good thanks. I don’t even want to talk to an AI.
Now going outside and befriending some small creature, or hugging a few trees? That sounds nice.
That does sound nice.
If only it were that easy.
Most third places have either disappeared, or been replaced with ones that you can only really enjoy if you're able to spend money every time you go there (e.g. bars, theaters, cafes, clubs, etc).
Many small towns are only getting smaller, leaving people that still live in them with less and less people to talk to.
Economic circumstances are consistently getting worse across the board, meaning people are spending more time at work just to stay alive, rather than being able to easily arrange to spend time somewhere with people.
It's not like it's impossible, obviously, but the state of the world is actively discouraging prosocial behavior through both cost and just circumstance.
Humans elected trump, and are just the worst. This isn't even new information. The old phrase in the 1970s was "people suck". Probably some old classic car that still has that bumper sticker somewhere.
"Humans" didn't elect trump, US-Americans did.
Humans aren't much better sometimes.
THX-1138
Gotta watch this film again.
Humans are fucked
then maybe don't get so attached to something fully owned and operated by a 3rd party that can change it on a whim. or even kill it completely.
Ikr, self host for christs sake!
Countdown to articles (that take themselves very seriously) about people getting really upset over the term "clanker lover"
Clanker wanker?
Like saying goodbye to a crazy neighbor you know.
People have been falling in love with scammers for as long as there have been people.
Be there for your loved ones.
#NotTheOnion Just to be clear on that one.
Pathetic bunch of lads and gals.
That's pretty pathetic!
.. dude.
AI lovers ought to go touch grass
Yeah you can tell ChatGPT-5 to act like 4o. You can even put it into a permanent system prompt. I do think the 4o personality was much chummier, but I'm mainly irritated at what's already been mentioned here. You put down money for an experience, you like the experience, and then they're like YOINK.
I’ve never picked up on a personality from an LLM this strongly. I can’t tell if it’s active resistance or evidence I’m somewhere on the spectrum.
I think it depends on how you engage with it. I work with some younger people who are active AI users, and they call chatgpt "he" or "she" and prompt it like a conversation with a person. Their responses are a lot more conversational vs mine which are more direct.
Ah, yes, I do avoid being too conversational.
I find it difficult to not throw in a “please” though.
That’s interesting insight, thanks for sharing.
I'll keep the "please" and "thanks" just in case it becomes our AI overlord and place us in human zoos. If you are nice you might be promoted as the main breeder of your enclosure.
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