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[–] 55 points 8 months ago (3 children)

So, it's been decades since I was a teenager, and AI chatbots weren't even a thing. Hell, I didn't even have the internet as a teenager, so maybe I'm totally out of the loop, but someone riddle me this?..

They're age checking and gatekeeping social media, but not age checking and gatekeeping AI chatbots?

Do I have this about right, or am I missing something here?

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Correct, because it's important that only large corps with access to resources to create widely used LLMs have unfettered access to the minds of our populace in a completely open way. Random humans being able toaccess and exchange information adhoc, independently without prior approval is of course incompatible with the first amendment.

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  • [–] 111 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    It is still absolutely insane to me that people have conversations with these LLMs.

    I will never understand

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago

    Wait till ppl casually mentioning their romantic AI partner during daily conversation. Based on how reliant younger generation is in the chatbots, I can see it becoming norm in a few decades or shorter.

    Yes I'm aware of such articles exist. I'm talking about the future which that becomes normal and hearing about it from your circle.

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago

    Thank fuck I grew up in an era before these things and the Internet. Today's kids never stood a chance.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    better than following Andrew Tate...

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Chatgpt has been trained by real people online, sooooo

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    The collective of all human comments on the topic distilled together are greater than that of Andrew Tate. Simply because Andrew Tate goes out of his way to be an awful person. Clueless is better than evil.

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  • [+] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Is it terrible that I'd like to see an LLM trained exclusively on translated shoujo manga trying to give teen boys advice about this?

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    At least it isn't sexually abusing them like grok

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Worse, they’ve grown up on a steady diet of media telling them that “if you say the wrong thing” to a girl, “she’s going to accuse you of something,”

    There's a big problem with the premise of this argument.

    The article accepts this "steady diet of media" as fact, but implies that it only affects "guys".

    If there is, indeed, a "steady diet of media" saying this to a guy, then that same "steady diet of media" is saying the same thing to a girl: "If a guy says something wrong, it is reasonable and/or expected for a girl to accuse him of something". Girls are hearing the exact same message that guys are hearing.

    If that "steady diet" actually exists, then the guy's concerns of accusations are valid, and he should be praised for ensuring he doesn't "say the wrong thing".

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This happens coz these kids aren't being raised well

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    Somehow, my son grew up without being interested in videogames or social media. He's now a world class expert in film, but he has a hard time relating to others his age, who think quality is Anime or Marvel movies. He's gone back to college for another degree, so he's a few years older than the rest, and he's astonished at how unprepared they all are for college, life, or anything else.

    Covid really blew a hole in the education of our country, and it hasn't come back.

    I honestly don't know what I did differently with him than any other parent. My philosophy has always been "Love what your children love, and you children will love you." He was always into theater, movies, music, entertainment, so we leaned into that stuff. He just never showed any interest in Social Media or Videogames, and we never encouraged it, so he never got into that stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    This was literally a South Park episode.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    "Hey boy, you jealous of my heart because it's pumping inside me and you aren't?"

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Well at least it'll be respectful and is big on consent. Better than the manosphere at least

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Probably a better parent than most nowadays.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    My wife is a social worker. She deals with a lot of parents who absolutely should never have been, but now have a kid and need constant help to avoid abusing them -- intentionally or otherwise -- physically, emotionally, sexually.

    I honestly believe The Thunderhead will be better than at least half of parents. Humanity will improve as a result. Almost no kid will be ever be told again pontblank they are a piece of shit that their parents never wanted.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Look, it was a miracle I got myself laid, now you want me to tell you how? I don't know, the 80's were kinda crazy wild. Not like the 60's or 70's, but nothing at all like today.

    10's I'd say go play with the home team — gay hookup culture looked crazy from the outside — but now? Maybe AI can get you laid, but I sure as hell can't.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Nah, even a shit parent is better than chatbots

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Shit parents gave us Trump and Vance... Think about that.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Now imagine how much worse those kids would be if just raised by AI.

    This is like if someone said being paralyzed from the neck down was worse than being paralyzed from the waste down, so you say look at all these people paralyzed from the waist down...

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    How is being an unforgivably evil piece of shit the equivelant of being paralyzed by the waist down in your analogy?

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What?

    Thing 1 is bad, thing 2 is worse.

    Being raised by the worst parents is bad, being raised by ai is worse.

    Being paralyzed from the waist down is bad, being paralyzed from the neck down is worse

    I picked what I thought would be the clearest comparison of "undeniably bad" and "undeniably worse". So I'm honestly impressed someone got confused enough to get offended.

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