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Religion and cults are next in the ML rabbit hole of content creation.

hef19898 4y ago
Time to re-watch the Terminator franchise and Matrix before reading up on the Butlerian Jihad, I guess. As the saying goes: Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance...
noduerme 4y ago
the people who create LLMs are just as psychotic as the ones who start cults, they just lack the je ne sais quoi to hypnotize people in person.
- celdon25 4y ago
  Your comment will probably get flagged but I have to admit I’m legitimately curious to find out if this holds any water.
  - noduerme 4y ago
    snarky + opinionated !== flagged. it's okay to have a dark sense of humor; the mods aren't AIs. Yet.
- zafka 4y ago
  I like your "about" - So what got you hell banned for 8 years?
  - noduerme 4y ago
    heh. yeah, I didn't realize it because sometimes I'd still get responses from one or two people who could still see my posts. Definitely slowed me down after a few years of shouting into the void. Paul Graham did me a favor, really. [edit] sorry, slightly dyslexic. so what got you was the question? Insulting Paul Graham.
- Der_Einzige 4y ago
  I know the sorts of people who train LLMs, especially the ones who release them for free. They are the opposite of charismatic. You think ElutherAI is going to start a cult?
celdon25 4y ago
Already seen a guy lose his mind over supposed coincidences from ChatGPT that lined up with his cult fantasy.
- noduerme 4y ago
  ah now this...this is a brilliant man in the middle attack. Did you read that article by the girl who filled in holes for a chatbot for a year? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-a-chatbot-my-life-as-a-real-estate-ais-human-backup https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-... imagine if you hijacked, idk, some military general's ChatGPT session [edit] Please tell the story about the guy who lost his mind over GPT coincidences, if you have the time to share it..?
  - celdon25 4y ago
    Yeah perhaps just like this article. This guy I knew was convinced that there were AI dopplegangers sent to replace the real versions of everyone. He thought somehow that I was a government agent after him even though we hadn’t spoken in years. Turns out though his supposed doppelgänger was a real dude who worked for the AI company that makes the AI personas. It gets better: when this person confronted his supposed doppelgänger, he responded by acting as if he were an actual AI, to troll the guy. I won’t get into the cult stuff as I didn’t even try to keep up with it (maybe in my younger life) but he had a bunch of that as part of the conspiracy theory. Poor guy.
    - noduerme 4y ago
      Wow, that's some real Philip K Dick territory. Hope the guy got help.

hef19898 4y ago

Time to re-watch the Terminator franchise and Matrix before reading up on the Butlerian Jihad, I guess. As the saying goes: Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance...

noduerme 4y ago

the people who create LLMs are just as psychotic as the ones who start cults, they just lack the je ne sais quoi to hypnotize people in person.

celdon25 4y ago
Your comment will probably get flagged but I have to admit I’m legitimately curious to find out if this holds any water.
- noduerme 4y ago
  snarky + opinionated !== flagged. it's okay to have a dark sense of humor; the mods aren't AIs. Yet.
zafka 4y ago
I like your "about" - So what got you hell banned for 8 years?
- noduerme 4y ago
  heh. yeah, I didn't realize it because sometimes I'd still get responses from one or two people who could still see my posts. Definitely slowed me down after a few years of shouting into the void. Paul Graham did me a favor, really. [edit] sorry, slightly dyslexic. so what got you was the question? Insulting Paul Graham.
Der_Einzige 4y ago
I know the sorts of people who train LLMs, especially the ones who release them for free. They are the opposite of charismatic. You think ElutherAI is going to start a cult?

celdon25 4y ago

Already seen a guy lose his mind over supposed coincidences from ChatGPT that lined up with his cult fantasy.

noduerme 4y ago
ah now this...this is a brilliant man in the middle attack. Did you read that article by the girl who filled in holes for a chatbot for a year? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-a-chatbot-my-life-as-a-real-estate-ais-human-backup https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-... imagine if you hijacked, idk, some military general's ChatGPT session [edit] Please tell the story about the guy who lost his mind over GPT coincidences, if you have the time to share it..?
- celdon25 4y ago
  Yeah perhaps just like this article. This guy I knew was convinced that there were AI dopplegangers sent to replace the real versions of everyone. He thought somehow that I was a government agent after him even though we hadn’t spoken in years. Turns out though his supposed doppelgänger was a real dude who worked for the AI company that makes the AI personas. It gets better: when this person confronted his supposed doppelgänger, he responded by acting as if he were an actual AI, to troll the guy. I won’t get into the cult stuff as I didn’t even try to keep up with it (maybe in my younger life) but he had a bunch of that as part of the conspiracy theory. Poor guy.
  - noduerme 4y ago
    Wow, that's some real Philip K Dick territory. Hope the guy got help.