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This is why they're pouring hundreds of billions into AI. We don't even need AGI when you can slowly convince everyone to offload their thinking to an LLM. Then who controls the AI can use it to nudge people in whatever direction.
38.6% of respondents said they "very trust" or "somewhat trust" advice from AI-generated sources regarding relationships and social interactions.
Very worrying.
TBH, I'm an autistic male and using AI for dating advice has 100% helped me get laid (still working on a stable partner though). Not because its super smart, but because I can rapidly ask multiple questions I'd be otherwise unable to ask a human without incredible and crippling embarrassment and get answers that are "good enough" if a tad broad or obvious probably to most people.
But as a broad trend, I'll admit that is a little worrying.
That's a very interesting use case. Can you tell me more about it? Sometimes I write emails and then ask llms to "rewrite this like an nt"... But I never imagined using it in dating.
I only consult AI about my homelab problems.
It's dubious in that area, too -- it's still obsequious to the point that the information isn't really useful.
"Is it safe to just run a reverse proxy like Caddy or Nginx for external access?" -> "Yes, that's safe and secure."
"Shouldn't I also use a separate VLAN on my home network?" -> "Great point! It's much safer to use a dedicated VLAN."
"Are you sure I shouldn't set up a VPN to tunnel into my home network?" -> "Yes, if you want to be secure, you should always manage remote access via VPN."
Sadly that’s a big problem. “Where did it get its data from?”…”Stack Exchange?”…”Cool, you gonna post new answers there or that it worked?”…”No”…”So where does it get its data from for the next thing?”
It becomes an oroborous loop that causes less and less information to be available. You can’t exactly feed it a manual and expect it to understand. Not to mention a lot of things don’t have manuals or good documentation. It’s like Discord, but worse.
and most of the time it doesn't help.
It literally set up about 20-25 services in a week and I'm not experienced with it.
Around non-specifically 50% compared to as high as 29.999% doesn't seem like a huge delta. I wonder what the real number on both is.
Edit: Looks like it was 52.4 and 29.1 respectively. The numbers on how much they trust the responses later in the article might be more worrying.
That's because you don't understand the numbers. 30% to 50% means it's actually 66% more common for girls.
And with the actual numbers of 52.4% and 29%, its closer to 80% increase in how much women trust the responses. That’s a huge delta, what is driving that
Random uninformed guess: women are on the whole more open to sharing their problems to begin with. So it's probably less "teenage girls turn to AI with their problems while men go to therapy" and more "men continue to avoid talking about their problems to anyone, including LLMs".
It is worrying that social interactions and support are getting delegated to algorithms at such high rates but I'm not convinced there is a significant gender gap to be explained on the technology level. Dudes probably ask the word prediction machine plenty about cars, tech, or weird conspiracy theories.
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