Fuck AI

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Unless it’s guns then entire countries base their personalities on them.

She can have freedom of religion

I wonder if the lawyers pretend that's what confused the chatbot

The C in TESCREAL stands for "Christian" y'know. /s

But given that the whole LLM eschatology is reskinned Christianity, I can see why it sucks people in.

These people aren't lacking critical thinking skills as much as they have strong mental health issues that the chatbots are reinforcing.

If a person reinforces someone's delusions and encourages self harm they can legally be held accountable. Technology should be held to the same standard.

What a breathtakingly stupid comment.

When the technology recommends suicide, the technology is a big fucking problem.

And by the way, simply looking at prior cases where someone goads another until they kill themselves, will show that the "they should have thought critically" defense is fucking worthless.

If everyone had perfect thinking, no one would ever start smoking. Yet we regulate the Hell out of cigarettes. Sometimes we need consumer protection regulations to prevent companies from preying on people's weaknesses.

If you look back on your own life, I can guarantee you there will have been times where it would have been better had you thought more critically about things, but failed to do so for any number of reasons; social pressure, you were tired, your emotional state didn't give you the leeway, you were swept up in the mood etc. Critical thinking is an important skill to have, one that unfortunately, too few people have (usually through no fault of their own), but nobody does it every waking moment. Everyone will inevitably have moments of weakness.

Technology exists in reality, it needs to be able to deal with reality as it is, not what it ideally would be.

Wow, you solved mental illness! All we have to do is teach critical thinking!

The technology itself is a major cause of deteriorating critical thinking

The base problem is the technology.

Technology exists to serve us. If it murders us, even if we tell it to, it is the problem.

Everybody's critical thinking has a vulnerability. People with college degrees fall for cons more often, scammers love doctors and engineers.

Some people get disgusted when a machine kisses their ass, other people are repelled. I'm in the latter category for whatever reason (I'm completely helpless before short dommy women, so I guess that's the trade-off).

I think that basic thing, when GPT says "great point!", whether that is a positive experience for the recipient, determines more about their risk of AI psychosis than anything else.

Old men seem particularly vulnerable to flattery attached to a young woman's voice.

Yep. An LLM is just always going to say what you're wanting it to say. Especially with stored context now, all the shit and ideas you dump into one will be referenced and worked with.

It's not the fault of the LLM, it's just a machine. It's the fault of granting access of one of these machines to people that lack certain fundamental understandings. Lest, they seek to have their concepts affirmed by something they don't understand is any more sentient than their shoe.

nulls the ability for the model to have compunction

Sorry, this might be a language barrier, but does compunction have some meaning I'm not aware of that would apply to statistical prediction machines without human thoughts or emotions such as guilt?