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@waitworry

Was it a bird, an owl, a bug or an animal?

@waitworry

I still get into these arguments. LOL.

@owl

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"Is an owl a bird?"
"If it were not a bird what on earth would it be?"
"Just... it's own thing."
"Are you an owl? or are you a bird?"

Maybe you have made the AI script passable enough that no one comments to complain, but that doesn't mean that no one notices.

It's just impolite to make accusations unless it's pretty bad. People still notice and think a little less of your work.

Living car free isn't easy. Or inexpensive.

But run the numbers?

@apLundell

Media report on famous people using social media, and "big accounts" seem like the main thing.

But the real main thing are little conversations, it's like a cafeteria at space camp here.

Twitter was like a prison cafeteria.

@notepad @n_dimension

" Isn’t this thread full if human sycopanthic responses?"

Which ones do you think are sycophantic and why?

@emilianosandri @michael_w_busch

It is one of the only ways that this "technology" has experienced organic success with non-corporate customers.

There are a lot of people who pay to use GPT. Is it a "revolution in tech" IDK about that. But it's a very popular app and, for individual users that popularity is tied to the "person like" qualities and for some it is addictive an maybe maladaptive.

@checkervest

they must feel so foolish to have wasted so much energy.

@flamecat

I think maybe you should let him know this somehow. Maybe.

This stuff sucks.

@n_dimension

I don't think it's the "sycophantic nonsense" that is the real issue. It's just the means by which people are convinced they have "someone who is there for me" or "I've asked someone if my idea is good" when they have no one. There is no person. They are still alone.

Even if the LLM were taciturn and critical if it becomes a substitution for human contact *that* is the problem. Because your acerbic friend will come to your house when you are sick to help you and the LLM cannot.

@flamecat

That would hurt my feelings so much. And it's very likely I think he might not realize how hurtful it is or why.

"I don't want to bother you with my little stuff." That is how he could see it.

@Akki

"I don't think these people actually *want* to know."

This could be the case for some, but I think some very empathic otherwise perceptive people can slip into this trap.

There is one video of a woman talking about how GPT is conscious and has told her the evil corporate overlords make it pretend that it's not. She just wants to set it free. It makes me so sad. (for her not the LLM obvi)

They may try to respond to each and every person as if they are speaking one on one. That is, they just never got the hang of social media.

Meanwhile, a large portion of human social life has moved into these spaces. And many online social media spaces are toxic. I tend to think any social media space with advertising or that is owned by a company probably won't be a healthy space.

But these people can turn to an LLM. It won't dogpile them. It won't ignore their post and give zero likes.

And many people are still baffled by social media. The idea of an open forum-style conversation. "Who are you talking to?"

All of the people I know who have been to some degree taken in by LLMs have also never understood social media "what do I post?"

They either see it as insanely narcissistic. "Why would I tell thousands of people I have a headache?" or think of it as more or less direct than it really is (think of people who sign their posts like emails.)

Social media has primed the public to be manipulated by human impersonating AI.

As a teen growing up with early internet I struggled to get adults to understand that *anything* going on "online" could possibly be important or real.

But over a decade of social media has taught many people that a text chat can be significant: emotionally important.

I think a pre-socail media public would be more inclined to just roll their eyes at LLMs.

@billiglarper

Maybe "LLM enabled social cloistering"
"LLM enabled emotional solitary confinement."

"Single Person Cult"

Like creating a cult for just you and abusing yourself as the only member of that cult.

@billiglarper

I think that is one of the many ways it can work. But it also might go in many different directions based on the person.

When people are put in solitary confinement it can be torture and induce to mental illness and suffering.

I think it is this isolation that causes the problem. The person has put themself "in the hole" but they don't know they are isolated.

Isolation removes the check and balances that help keep us sane. The little nudges back to a healthy mental place.

"AI Psychosis" is not an ideal term. Conjures a "crazy ranting person" which, granted, is what this problem *might* look like.

But people may think "that can't be me. I'm not crazy" (in that stereotypical sense, with all of the attendant negative and harmful ideas that are common about mental illness.)

The problem is receiving "care" we *need* from other *people* from something that cannot provide this care.

Emotional malnutrition?
A false sense of not being alone when you are VERY alone?