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Even aside from this skeezy and exploitative business model, there are people who already have sort of para-social relationships with vanilla chatgpt.. https:/

Even aside from this skeezy and exploitative business model, there are people who already have sort of para-social relationships with vanilla chatgpt.. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ba0vha/my_78_year_old_father_has_discovered_he_can_just/ktzhacg/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ba0vha/my_78_year... that's just one especially sad example I found, but I've seen others.. It is very difficult to _not_ think of these chatbots as people when you interact with them, and if you're a person who is starving for human attention, you're going to start thinking of it as your friend.

catlover76 2y ago
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mocha_nate 2y ago
Twitch thrives on parasocial. If you can imagine a twitch egirl being replaced by an AI twitch egirl that responds to personal customized messages.. I can easily see that as a big industry. Sad but inevitable
- ceejayoz 2y ago
  Oh, this already exists as a product. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/19/ai-porn-sophie-dee-jack-nicklaus/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/19/ai-porn... > Sophie Dee’s artificial-intelligence doppelganger talks like a sparkling conversationalist: bubbly, curious, eager to please. It never sleeps or takes vacation, and it even creates fake selfies that make Dee look younger, bustier and blemish-free. > But Dee, an adult-content creator in Las Vegas, doesn’t see SophieAI as a threat. The image-generating chatbot, trained to mimic her look and speech, makes her money with every fan who uses it, starting at $4.99 a month. And after 20 years in the pornography business, Dee, 39, said she is happy to outsource some of her identity for a less demanding revenue stream.
- PaulHoule 2y ago
  A.I. models are already better at seduction than most people are. That's how people walk away from ChatGPT impressed with its genius.
nicklecompte 2y ago
The LLM critic in me can't help but notice that ChatGPT-3.5 completely whiffed its explanation of integration in the original post, but of course did so in a fluent, confident way that made its response sound like it was correct. The ease with which LLMs launder misinformation at scale is genuinely dismaying.
- empath-nirvana 2y ago
  I'm fairly sure its explanation of integration is correct? Maybe not a good answer for a math major, but it's a good answer for his question.
  - nicklecompte 2y ago
    "when you integrate a function you find the accumulation of its rate of change" is simply wrong. You find the accumulation of the function itself, not its deltas. GPT is confusing the fundamental theorem of calculus with the meaning of integration. ETA: what makes LLMs so worrying is that I know calculus quite well, and I think GPT-4 is dumber than a mouse, yet I still felt gaslit by GPT-3.5's wrong answer! I had to make a mental picture to make sure I wasn't contradicting the Mighty Talking Robot. This technology is poison.
    - kirth_gersen 2y ago
      We have always had a cognitive bias towards believing glib explanations. We just hold AIs to a higher standard than we do actual human beings. The bias is particularly biased towards attractive individuals we want agree with (so they like us more).
ergonaught 2y ago
The reality is that you can have better conversations with them than with most actual human beings via social media, comment sections, forum-equivalents, etc, so why not?

catlover76 2y ago

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mocha_nate 2y ago

Twitch thrives on parasocial. If you can imagine a twitch egirl being replaced by an AI twitch egirl that responds to personal customized messages.. I can easily see that as a big industry. Sad but inevitable

ceejayoz 2y ago
Oh, this already exists as a product. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/19/ai-porn-sophie-dee-jack-nicklaus/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/19/ai-porn... > Sophie Dee’s artificial-intelligence doppelganger talks like a sparkling conversationalist: bubbly, curious, eager to please. It never sleeps or takes vacation, and it even creates fake selfies that make Dee look younger, bustier and blemish-free. > But Dee, an adult-content creator in Las Vegas, doesn’t see SophieAI as a threat. The image-generating chatbot, trained to mimic her look and speech, makes her money with every fan who uses it, starting at $4.99 a month. And after 20 years in the pornography business, Dee, 39, said she is happy to outsource some of her identity for a less demanding revenue stream.
PaulHoule 2y ago
A.I. models are already better at seduction than most people are. That's how people walk away from ChatGPT impressed with its genius.

nicklecompte 2y ago

The LLM critic in me can't help but notice that ChatGPT-3.5 completely whiffed its explanation of integration in the original post, but of course did so in a fluent, confident way that made its response sound like it was correct. The ease with which LLMs launder misinformation at scale is genuinely dismaying.

empath-nirvana 2y ago
I'm fairly sure its explanation of integration is correct? Maybe not a good answer for a math major, but it's a good answer for his question.
- nicklecompte 2y ago
  "when you integrate a function you find the accumulation of its rate of change" is simply wrong. You find the accumulation of the function itself, not its deltas. GPT is confusing the fundamental theorem of calculus with the meaning of integration. ETA: what makes LLMs so worrying is that I know calculus quite well, and I think GPT-4 is dumber than a mouse, yet I still felt gaslit by GPT-3.5's wrong answer! I had to make a mental picture to make sure I wasn't contradicting the Mighty Talking Robot. This technology is poison.
  - kirth_gersen 2y ago
    We have always had a cognitive bias towards believing glib explanations. We just hold AIs to a higher standard than we do actual human beings. The bias is particularly biased towards attractive individuals we want agree with (so they like us more).

ergonaught 2y ago

The reality is that you can have better conversations with them than with most actual human beings via social media, comment sections, forum-equivalents, etc, so why not?