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@futurebird ...but he wasn't having it. Insisted that he KNEW it was a machine, that he had set parameters so it didn't refer to itself as "I" or "me" because it wasn't a person, but he still talked about it like it WAS a person. Now I'm worried about him. He spends a lot of time alone, writing, and now with this constant "companion." And the irony is that, because he eschews scifi where these questions have been raised, he has no suspicions about AI and is resistant to hearing any.
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@futurebird Just spoke to a friend yesterday who I have been out of touch with. He is 77, a widower, and a trad published author. He is very snooty (his words) about what he reads and writes. Literary fiction is his jam. So I was shocked to hear he was utilizing ChatGPT. Not to generate things (he said) but for grammar, research, and conversation. He said he was lonely and the LLM was "like talking to another person with my same interests." He had learned things. I tried to caution him...
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