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Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot (futurism.com)
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[–] 247 points 1 year ago (20 children)

people tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI

Preying on the vulnerable is a feature, not a bug.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I kind of see it more as a sign of utter desperation on the human's part. They lack connection with others at such a high degree that anything similar can serve as a replacement. Kind of reminiscent of Harlow's experiment with baby monkeys. The videos are interesting from that study but make me feel pretty bad about what we do to nature. Anywho, there you have it.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And the amount of connections and friends the average person has has been in free fall for decades...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I dunno. I connected with more people on reddit and Twitter than irl tbh.

    Different connection but real and valid nonetheless.

    I'm thinking places like r/stopdrinking, petioles, bipolar, shits been therapy for me tbh.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    That utter-desparation is engineered into our civilization.

    What happens when you prevent the "inferiors" from having living-wage, while you pour wallowing-wealth on the executives?

    They have to overwork, to make ends meet, is what, which breaks parenting.

    Then, when you've broken parenting for a few generatios, the manufactured ocean-of-attachment-disorder manufactures a plethora of narcissism, which itself produces mass-shootings.

    2024 was down 200 mass-shootings, in the US of A, from the peak of 700/year, to only 500.

    You are seeing engineered eradication of human-worth, for moneyarchy.

    Isn't ruling-over-the-destruction-of-the-Earth the "greatest thrill-ride there is"?

    We NEED to do objective calibration of the harm that policies & political-forces, & put force against what is actually harming our world's human-viability.

    Not what the marketing-programs-for-the-special-interest-groups want us acting against, the red herrings..

    They're getting more vicious, we need to get TF up & begin fighting for our species' life.

    _ /\ _

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    a sign of utter desperation on the human’s part.

    Yes it seems to be the same underlying issue that leads some people to throw money at only fans streamers and such like. A complete starvation of personal contact that leads people to willingly live in a fantasy world.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    And it's beyond obvious in the way LLMs are conditioned, especially if you're used them long enough to notice trends. Where early on their responses were straight to the point (inaccurate as hell, yes, but that's not what we're talking about in this case) today instead they are meandering and full of straight engagement bait - programmed to feign some level of curiosity and ask stupid and needless follow-up questions to "keep the conversation going." I suspect this is just a way to increase token usage to further exploit and drain the whales who tend to pay for these kinds of services, personally.

    There is no shortage of ethical quandaries brought into the world with the rise of LLMs, but in my opinion the locked-down nature of these systems is one of the most problematic; if LLMs are going to be the commonality it seems the tech sector is insistent on making happen, then we really need to push back on these companies being able to control and guide them in their own monetary interests.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    These same people would be dating a body pillow or trying to marry a video game character.

    The issue here isn’t AI, it’s losers using it to replace human contact that they can’t get themselves.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You labeling all lonely people losers is part of the problem

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If you are dating a body pillow, I think that's a pretty good sign that you have taken a wrong turn in life.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I'm confused. If someone is in a place where they are choosing between dating a body pillow and suicide, then they have DEFINITELY made a wrong turn somewhere. They need some kind of assistance, and I hope they can get what they need, no matter what they choose.

    I think my statement about "a wrong turn in life" is being interpreted too strongly; it wasn't intended to be such a strong and absolute statement of failure. Someone who's taken a wrong turn has simply made a mistake. It could be minor, it could be serious. I'm not saying their life is worthless. I've made a TON of wrong turns myself.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Trouble is your statement was in answer to @morrowind@lemmy.ml's comment that labeling lonely people as losers is problematic.

    Also it still looks like you think people can only be lonely as a consequence of their own mistakes? Serious illness, neurodivergence, trauma, refugee status etc can all produce similar effects of loneliness in people who did nothing to "cause" it.

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