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Undocumented probably b/c of a lack of mental health coverage on his insurance. If he had any.
I read somewhere that these chatbots are really good at triggering schizophrenia for example. So people could be perfectly fine mentally until they spend too much time talking to a dumbass chatbot.
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I can’t be the only one that thinks if you do stupid illegal shit that your crazy uncle told you/voices in your head told you/AI mirror told you you don’t get to use the excuse that you were just following orders from any of those options.
The difference is when a LLM tells you, it's news.
Besides, what are you gonna do if you ask AI how many rocks to eat? NOT eat rocks? People can't handle responsibility like that.
Power imbalance is what validates that excuse. Orders from crazy uncle is a great excuse, at least until you're 10 or so. Billion+ dollar llm company has a lot more resources, capability, and therefore responsibility than the poor bastards engaged with it
Floridaman is not making any excuses here. He can't. Because he's dead.
This is such an individualist framing.
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"unfortunately AI models are not perfect."
Oopsie poopsie 🤷
AI's don't go crazy like that after 5 prompts. You need to spend weeks and weeks talking to them to corrupt the context so much that it stops following original guidelines. I wonder how does one do it? How do you spend weeks talking to AI? I had "discussions" with AI couple of times when testing it and it's get really boring real soon. For me it doesn't sound like a person at all. It's just an algorithm with bunch of guardrails. What kind of person can think it actually has personality and engage with it on a sentimental level? Is it simply mental illness? Loneliness and desperation?
It got trained by 80s prime time television action adventure shows?