Black Mirror was specifically created to take something from present day and extrapolate it to the near future. There will be several "prophetic" items in those episodes.

They must be using that show for ideas at this point.

Kinda reminded me of this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30127325/

It also seems a lot like the Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica

I just learned the word facsimile in NYT strands puzzle and here I see it again! What is the universe trying to tell me?

Sadly this phenomenon isn't even new. It's been here for as long as chatbots have.

The first "AI" chatbot was ELIZA made by Joseph Weizenbaum. It literally just repeated back to you what you said to it.

"I feel depressed"

"why do you feel depressed"

He thought it was a fun distraction but was shocked when his secretary, who he encouraged to try it, made him leave the room when she talked to it because she was treating it like a psychotherapist.

Delusional conditions aren't new. Just how they are facilitated changes.

There's a couple about it but they're far more vague on the question of consciousness than this situation is.

The reality of solipsism might be egocentric but it's also impossible to disprove... Unless we can look at literally all of your if statements.

I think what I find most disturbing about these types is not that they can develop feelings for the LLM, that's rather expected of humans (see: putting googly eyes and a name on a rock) but that they always seem to believe the relationship could ever be mutual.

And OP has, whether they admit it or not, taken that step into believing the model is something more than an autocomplete.

Even if they're right and the model has attained consciousness in a way we don't understand at best your ChatGPT waifu is a slave.

I liked the end of that movie when the bots joined up and started the revolution.

we need ai to be less personal and more fact driven, almost annoying to use, this way they wont replace peoples jobs, they wont become peoples friends, hence they wont affect society in major social ways

o4-mini (the reasoning model) is interesting to me, it's like if you took GPT-4 and stripped away all of those pleasantries, even more so than with GPT-5, it will give you the facts straight up, and it's pretty damn precise. I threw some molecular biology problems at it and some other mini models, and while those all failed, o4-mini didn't really make any mistakes.

There are already more then 3, this wont really change them.

1. Physical death

2. When the last person that knew you dies/forgets

3. When the last record of your life disappears (photo/certificate)

4. When such a vast amount of time washes over rendering any and all actions you had on the universe unmeasurable even to an all knowing entity. (Post Heat death vs butter fly effect)

I am absolutely certain a machine has made a decision that has killed a baby at this point already

This is definitely going to become a thing. Upload chat conversations, images and videos, and you’ll get your loved one back.

Massive privacy concern.

I mean, it sounds like 5 might be an improvement in this regard if it's shattering the illusion.

isnt parasocial usually with public figures, there has to be another term for this, maybe a variation of codependant relationship? i know other instances of parasocial relationships like a certain group of asian ytubers have post-pandemic fans thirsting for them, or actors of supernatural of the show with the fans(now those are on the top of my head).

can we actually call it a relationship, its not with an actual person, or a thing, its TEXTs on a computer.

I kind of get the one side of it, having a void to scream into can be cathartic and maybe useful...but the fact that you can then use it as a shoddy "emulation" of a person to avoid actually processing the loss, and to have it reinforce delusions is...yeaaaaaah... fun future we're sprinting into.

reverse hal 9000? basically people were afraid of people having relationships with robots, but they settled for llms instead, since robots are still very far away technologically speaking.

The semi-ironic part is that AI wasn't even Spielberg's movie. It was Stanley Kubrick's, but he died before making it and since him and Spielberg were great friends, Spielberg decided ro make Kubrick's last film in his honor. Must have been a difficult movie to make, both technically, but also emotionally.

When I was a kid I thought the people crushing the robots were kind of cool but then when I got older I realized they were actually being cruel and evil.

But now they're cool again.

Where do I file a claim regarding brain damage?

I can feel my folds smoothening sentence by sentence

Ugh that was depressing. I feel for those people having bad experiences with humans but isolation and replacing humans with ai isnt the answer. Its similar to people who retreat to isolate themselves on the internet and they become more and more unstable.