• theneverfox@pawb.social
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      8 months ago

      This isn’t a new thing, people have gone off alone into this kind of nonsensical journey for a while now

      The time cube guy comes to mind

      There’s also temple OS written in holy C, he was close to some of the stuff in the article

      And these are just two people functional and loud enough to be heard. This is a thing that happens, maybe LLMs exacerbate a pre existing condition, but people have been going off the deep end like this long before LLMs came into the picture

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          8 months ago

          I agree, it’s certainly not going to help people losing touch. But that’s not what worries me - that’s a small slice of the population, and models are beginning to get better at rejection/assertion

          What I’m more worried about is the people who are using it almost codependently to make decisions. It’s always there, it’ll always give you advice. Usually it’s somewhat decent advice, even. And it’s a normal thing to talk through decisions with anyone

          The problem is people are offloading their thinking to AI. It’s always there, it’s always patient with you… You can literally have it make every life decision for you.

          It’s not emotional connection or malicious AI I worry about… You can now walk around with a magic eight ball that can guide you through life reasonably well, and people are starting to trust it above their own judgement

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      8 months ago

      You mean the guys who put kids in suicide bombs don’t have acute psychosis?

      What about almost of the rvaibg Christian hermits that sit in their basements and harass people online?

      Its full on lovecraftian level psychosis. In the US they sell out stadiums and pretend to heal people by touch lmao