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Lordy. Just put your phone down go outside and just interact with humans.
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.
A heavily gerrymandered, politically censored, brainwashed, religious, and impoverished populace elected Trump.
Humans aren't much better sometimes.
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.
I don't really want those people talking to me.
THX-1138
Gotta watch this film again.
Humans are fucked
Well humans made me realize that Facebook's main reason for being awful was that more people joined... Same with reddit... More normal people joined...
It's not just who's on there. It's also how the platforms promote content into your feed. When I was on Facebook in 2008 the friend feed was just that. Just people I mutually knew IRL posting. Facebook hadn't yet figured out how to really monetize it. Advertisers were not as on it. SEO wasn't really a thing yet.
Fast-forward 5-6 years and it really grew into an all-encompassing thing. Yeah, more people were on it, but so were the marketable opportunities. So were the suggested posts. So were all the news organizations, the grifters, the advertisers... and Facebook's role in all of that is to promote the most outrageous and engaging content to you to keep you on the site longer than ever before. They have it down to a science.
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!
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."
Fallout 4, it was Paladin Danse IIRC.
I like the Fallout series, but man, the Institute was such a badly written villain. They make synths, they treat them like robots, okay, that’s understandable. They had the tech to rebuild the country, but nooo, they chose to kidnap people and replace them with synth doppelgängers because fuck know why. They were inexplicably obsessed with duplicating people.
Oh, and you don’t have to kill Danse, you can convince him to defect.
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.
What do you even get back in search engines that is better? Ads? The AI articles that are wrong anyways?
Yeah GPT is not great, but the better alternative is not search engines.
AI lovers should grieve their lost brain cells.
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.
techbros be normal challenge
Gross.
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.
#NotTheOnion Just to be clear on that one.
Pathetic bunch of lads and gals.
That's pretty pathetic!
.. dude.
Not a big user of AI but a suck up chat bot sounds like pain to interact with
AI lovers ought to go touch grass
I hated the old model. It would dish out pleasant lies all the time, refuse to correct any faulty assumptions….it was exactly the kind of thing my boomer mother would like. It was an automated corporate yes man.
The people who lament the death of that are mentally unwell.
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.
Adding a “please” and a “thank you” is probably good practice, literally, for communicating with sentient beings or simulacra thereof.
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.
Adding please and thank you also wastes resources c:
