He fucking helped create it

Don’t they have enough?!? How about they fix and optimize their fancy autocompletion software instead?

It's a pretty clear humble-brag, no? The launch was only botched because people loved the previous personality; it's an estimate of how much people care about the product and how much price gouging they could do later.

No it wasn't good for OpenAI. But I doubt it changed many investor minds.

How do investors keep falling for this shit.

The ROI and the supposed savings from getting rid of the human side of technical support but also efforts of human creatives.

He's saying the launch was done badly because some users are in love with GPT-4 and it should not be removed. From a point of view of a investor having people addicted to your product is a good thing.

Because they already know that once the AI shitbubble bursts, they will switch all the GPUs to start mining Bitcoin and keep grifting the mouth breathers believing all these horseshit.

How indeed. It's probably a multi-factor phenomenon which requires an anthropological study for a serious answer. (Good luck trying to get the necessary access to study them.) My guess for one factor in this, is that they have more money than they know what to do with.

Fugazi

Imaginary friends used to require atleast some modicum of creativity.

We’re all word generators

*Few more billion.

I sometimes wonder if silicon valley tech businesses in general will take a reputation hit with investors when this bubble bursts, it's gonna be a doozy.

But then I remember how many greedy idiots there are out there pumping money into grifts in the hope of The Big Win, and my expectations of consequences are tempered.

There's an entire active subreddit for people who have a "romantic relationship" with AI. It's terrifying.

Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.

not only that, but one that is fully owned and operated by a business that could change it any time they want, or even cease to exist completely.

This isn’t like a game where you could run your own server if you’re a big enough fan. if chatgpt stops existing in its current form that’s it.

I’m honestly surprised your’s is not the top comment. Like, whatever, the launch was bad, but there is a serious mental health crisis if people are forming emotional bonds to the software.

After reading about the ELIZA effect, I both learned how people are super susceptible to this, and just need to remember the core tenants of it to avoid getting affected:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

shame we gutted social spaces.

It doesn't admit anything, it's a language machine

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.

It doesn‘t know that it doesn‘t know because it doesn‘t actually know anything. Most models are trained on posts from the internet like this one where people rarely ever just chime in to admit they don‘t have an answer anyway. If you don‘t know something you either silently search the web for an answer or ask.

So since users are the ones asking ChatGPT, the LLM mimics the role of a person that knows the answer. It only makes sense AI is a „confidently wrong“ powerhouse.

LLMs don't have any awareness of their internal state, so there's no way for them to see something as a gap of knowledge.

In the end it's a word generator that has been trained so much it uses facts often enough to be convincing. That's its basic architecture.

You can ask it to give a confidence level to have an indication of how sure it is of the answer.

It wouldnt finish a lyric for me yesterday because it was copyrighted. I sid it was public domain and it said "You are absolutely right, given its release date it is under copyright protection"

Wtf

Someone I know (not close enough to even call an "internet friend") formed a sadistic bond with chatGPT and will force it to apologize and admit being stupid or something like that when he didn't get the answer he's looking for.

I guess that's better than doing it to a person I suppose.

It's a feature. Not a bug of LLMs.

It is a system that outputs an answer that is the most probably correct one from what it processes from the inputs. It does not have the concept of creating a lie. It is just a probability machine.

That’s actually one thing that got significantly improved with GPT-5, fewer hallucinations. Still not perfect of course

And depending on how OpenAI tweaked it this time it will either realize its mistake after being made aware of it or double down even harder on it.

I only use it for coding and it once told me my code not working was due to a bug in Webkit, so I asked it which bug specifically. It created links to bug reports but rewrote the titles of them. So initially it looked like it had numerous sources that backed up its statement but when I clicked on them those were bugs about totally different things.

It would not back down even after I specifically told it "You just made all of this shit up and even rewrote the titles" and got stuck in a loop of "I'm sorry, but you're wrong and I am 100% sure I haven't made a mistake".

Kinda creepy. Especially when you think about the system rewriting reality when it comes to much more important things. Let's just reinvent some history, that would be a good idea, right?

It's so much more effective when you keep things as neutral as possible. I will often ask it to tear apart my argument as though I am my opponent and use its tendency to align with the user against itself.

You would have better luck with a dating sim then AI as emotional support. Might inspire you to make a real friend.

Happy cake day!

The worst part is that they backstepped a bit and made it "friendlier".

Basically undoing that part.

its between codependant relationship and parasocial relationship of celebrities/public figures which is the extreme end, because usually its ends with stalking, or death threats.

Honestly the more I read, the more I think that AI shouldn't have been invented. Humanity is heading in the same direction as the machine stops short story.