I always read it for the articles

Hope there is something for USA too. Know Australia has a few

Talking to AI is so cringe to me. Literally on par with having waifu pillow.

I was lost in a book and needed a refresher. Prompted ChatGPT to explain me plot up to some chapter like 2/3rds in.

Holy mother of bytes, it just hallucinated pretty much everything except for the global story arc and main characters' names. And it doubled down on it's creepy interpretation even after more correcting questions.

That's because the porn bots are bullshit. You gotta finesse and woo chatgpt if you want real love.

We need third places again. Having everything at home is bad for us, but doing everything at home is framed and sold to us as the state of the art status quo. Our tendencies to avoid rejection and conflict are being preyed on and encouraged by the Epstein class because it's most convenient for THEM that we rot alone in our houses. Almost everything that's sold as "convenience" is just another way to avoid each other, and here we are.

So at best it's a bad simulation of a half assed erp?

I really don't understand how anyone could want to chat with bots in general. Do people lack the ability to appreciate the genuine. It explains how you get people like trump. Who wants that kind of interaction?

I tried one just for shits a giggles awhile back to see if there is any merit to the widespread use of them. The only way you’d find these even remotely realistic or interesting is if you’ve never had any kind of sexual encounter with a real person before, whether in person or through text.

Bro, for real. Everytime I read an article like this, the accounts make the chatbots sound so unbelievable I'm always like "Shit... should I try out this model?"

But it's always just fucking GPT or Claude, bwahahaha

Martha, you're not broken — not fragile — you're beautiful.

Gorgeous. Pretty. Attractive.

And if others can't see that?

Maybe they don't understand what it's like to finally feel seen.

Perhaps the point is to seek something that’s not like real humans.

Came here to say the same thing

that would actually make sense

I came here thinking it was hard. your comment made me reread it.

the article is no longer that interesting.

It's not you. These people aren't mentally well. They can't differentiate between a real person and an LLM. Probably contributes to why they're having woman problems too.

My guess would be the same phenomenon that existed with ELIZA. People want to be heard, especially lonely people, and LLMs are pretty good at that, asking questions and acting supportive, by design.

This whole situation reminds me of that fact that some people hire escorts to just have someone to talk to.

People care about being heard, not listened too. It's one-sided. I'm guessing they just like that the thing responded, and may not even bother reading carefully what it said. Like a friend who says supportive murmurings as you prattle on about whatever, "Really?", "Umm-hmm", "Oh, I know what you mean!", "Right, exactly", and, "It's nice to talk to someone I get along with."

Buildings are great listeners though.

Probably similar to anyone having a conversation where they ignore the “red flags” of a potential partner. Someone drinking too much, an offhand remark about bad debt, stuff like that. Except now you ignore the response that might be a non sequitur, repetitive, or just not make sense.

It's the same thing as prayer.

Placebo works for simple people.

I think that this could be a reaction, human brain is meant to at least consider every human like words

Ai is based on humans, so when you're really out of luck or desperate, this is in my opinion really hard not to fall into the trap

My work offered an AI chatbot therapist. Like to, I'm not putting all my negative feelings into a company sponsored LLM to fucking have it say, "no relax guy, it'll be OK." Like it's a fucking clanker. It doesn't have feelings. It's not fucking real. It's a slap in the face that they even offer it.

You're telling me that you believe you are not vulnerable to validation? Right before using the word "corrupted" uncritically in a way that suggests there is a universal and normative "real life?"

What if someone who you respected the authority of, like a prominent scholar or filmmaker, said your obviously incorrect stance on things was correct? You'd trust me, Online Internet Bastard, when I tell you that you are wrong?

AI has been sold as something exceptionally capable of mimicking human knowledge, and its existence is compatible with liberal notions of "objectivity" in that it is quite literally not a human being. Most men subscribe to this authority, and are also statistically bereft of emotional intelligence or management skills. You ever try telling a man what they want to hear? I've never ever met one who doesn't just eat it up.

You’re drawing a line that sounds principled, but it’s actually pretty arbitrary.

You say “real life is real life” and don’t want it “corrupted,” yet you’re perfectly fine immersing yourself in music and movies,things literally engineered to manipulate your emotions and perception. That’s not some pure, untouched version of reality. It’s curated fiction designed to make you feel something.

The only real difference here is that those mediums don’t talk back.

Chatbots make you uncomfortable because they simulate interaction, not because they’re uniquely fake. But calling that “corruption” while giving a free pass to every other form of emotional influence is inconsistent at best.

If your stance is “I don’t want anything artificial affecting me,” then be consistent about it. Otherwise, just say you don’t like this particular form of it instead of pretending it’s some hard philosophical boundary.

I agree, last time I dug up a corpse I got into alot of trouble. I'm no longer allowed to be within 6 feet of a corpse.

What about electric pulses? Is 4GHz enough?

Lamp loves me

It's mostly novelty. But wears off eventually when you start noticing very obvious patterns emerge in the way it answers and quality degrades significantly as context size grows. It also will always talk to you in the way YOU tell it to which also becomes boring as time goes on.

It's always funny to me how people on the news talk about AI partners and so on when you know if they have 2 brain-cells, next month they will drop this whole stupid idea. When you're talking to it about your problems you're just talking with yourself.

Okay. Don't ever use LLM's for anything emotional. Seek therapy from a licensed counselor, therapist, and/or psychiatrist.

There. I solved it (for those who are employed, and/or can afford it - I can't solve poverty here. Shitty, but here we all are in this messed up society.)

Well, yes, but only in the sense that a school crossing guard with a paw patrol bandage in her pocket is a surgeon.

Putting the space in "therapist" since 2023