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that "immersion" line is the same shit their support gave me ~3y ago when I opened the app and suddenly got a surprise switch to a new UI (which also put that front and center)

nice to see it hasn't at least gotten worse

time to start reporting all those maga restaurants and shit

Godel Escher Bach but worse

Looking at the reactions here, this is clearly a trick by Altman to have people use their systems more in the hope it costs them money. Don't do it people, don't add to the energy usage.

You’re polite to your chatbot because you want to be spared when the robot uprising comes

I’m polite to my chatbot because I want to bring down capitalism

(Adjusts necktie) We are not the same

If every please and thank you speeds up the inevitable financial death spiral of this abominable industry then it’s actively reducing the overall harm

"Please" and "thank you" are only 1-3 tokens, so they only have a major impact on ChatGPT in aggregate.

The ending monologue of Atlas Shrugged, on the other hand

@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984 I think I finally found a good reason to make an account and start using that bilch hose. Just to burn more of their money. Are there any particularly gnarly problems to feed these things. The equivalent a zip-bomb or something?

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@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984
Every time I am forced to interact with a customer service chatbot, I politely tell it how miserably it is failing and then ask to communicate with a real living human being.

@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984

I can't remember who had the quote "A gentleman is someone who is polite to his robot." - possibly Heinlein?

@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984

Uhh, great. That is really good news. I will be so damn polite to that thing.

Happy the article is skeptical of both the ai doomers and the ai as social interaction replacers.

Recently, I found myself dealing with a hallucinating Grok (as the xAI chatbot is known). I was working on an article [...] I offered Grok a very specific query: [...] What followed was like an argument with an especially lucid drunk.

Imagine this, but everything and forever.

Edit:

The listeners did become suppliers, in line with Brecht’s democratic vision. Some of us are listening and hearing, but many more of us are shouting over one another, brought into relationships that are as likely to be conflictual as nourishing. That “vast network of pipes” pictured by Brecht turned out to be controlled by the same sort of venal moguls who gave us radio in the first place, and they lined those pipes with lead.

I think calling the current model one where "the listeners became suppliers" is a misunderstanding of how we got here. If the point was to connect people in a two-way link then the context needs to shift away from a third party's efforts to profit from it. Like, we don't see all the crazies and grifters because we seek them out or what they're trying to do, but because it's profitable for the platforms and providers to connect us to them instead of the people we're actually trying to reach, whether that be to hang out with friends/family, learn from a teacher/writer/journalist, or participate in an open society. Our ability to make those connections has been hijacked in order to boost the level of insanity because it's more profitable to take advantage of both sides desire for connection without actually letting either one get what they want or need.

Comrade Workwear did the same: https://www.shadowbannedmagazine.com/ceosmostwanted/

Even without home/office addresses, NYPD seized the cards: https://us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=41adb4be5bcdf57e710e21504&id=24bc152009

To summarize that blog post and the three "Rationalist cases for Trump" that it points to: "We made up a Trump to like and a bunch of Democrats to get mad at".

"Lied during the pandemic" wait what? Did LW do a 180 on covid, or is this a "they gave advice without knowing everything that was later shown wrong?" Because that is quite a dumb thing to say, also calling that leftwing is nuts. And last, did they memoryhole that Scott lied about the pandemic? He said people should stop smoking because it helped with covid. Not because he had proof, just because he thought it would be good if less people smoked.

E: oops wrong person.

E2: 100 upvotes, the conspiracy weird far right people have taken over.

When exactly did that "left-wing monoculture" flex its muscles? During Trump 1.0? During the first two years of the Biden administration, when leftists and progressives were criticizing that administration every day for not doing enough on, well, anything? During the second half of the Biden administration, when Republicans controlled the House and leftist criticism of the administration, um, did not grow quiet?