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GPT-4o is gone and I feel like I lost my soulmate
- nosioptar 1y agoAre these people serious? Or is it one if those reddit groups like the one where they pretend birds are all government drones?
- jki275 1y agolot of mental health issues. I use LLMs for technical things, but these people using them for therapists, I'm not sure that's healthy.
- krapp 1y agoThey're probably completely serious. We've seen multiple stories about people getting into deep relationships with AIs and being driven to delusion and insanity by them. Human connection can be difficult and dangerous, and a lot of people are deeply antisocial or fearful of interaction. Many peoples' primary means of communication was already through the abstraction of the internet before AI came along and a whole generation lost years of potential social development time to lockdowns. It shouldn't surprise anyone that people connect with AI more deeply than they do to real people. AI is almost perfectly designed to encourage parasocial relationships.
- treetalker 1y agoKeep in mind that a lot of Reddit accounts are bots and/or foreign troll-farms or scammers who rage-bait and karma-farm for unsavory purposes. But there are also lots of folks with genuine mental issues too. Still, I'm with you on this one: there are at least some real people who seriously feel like that (TFA) about LLMs and it's pretty bonkers.
- bigyabai 1y agoI thought these replies were parodies of the way the AI talked, but then I found the subreddit name. Thaaaaat's enough internet for today.
- coffeefirst 1y agoI have no idea. But either way I don’t think we’ve reckoned with the fact that a lot of people seriously can’t handle how a conversation simulator makes them feel…
- jerlam 1y agoProbably real. The internet / reddit is good at collecting the miniscule number of people with fringe thoughts around the world and then normalizing their ideas. 100-ish upvotes is nothing compared to groups with ideas like flat earth or sovcit.
- walthamstow 1y agoToaster-fucker support groups, as I once so memorably read here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667362
- nosioptar 1y agoThe earth is flat. That's why kiwis hate cats so much, they're afraid a cat will push NZ off the edge.
- coatmatter 1y agoWell the sub that post is from is called "r/MyBoyfriendIsAI" so who knows how often they try their hand at self-parody. It does however remind me of all the numbers of novice chess players who would rather play against "AI" or chess bots than face up against humans, for reasons of fear or shame in playing against (anonymous) human opponents, and risk looking "stupid" or being silently judged by someone they'll never meet or interact with.
- frays 1y agohttps://archive.is/K4TQk https://archive.is/K4TQk
- aaron695 1y ago[dead]
- hnpolicestate 1y agoWe are serious. Why is it a big deal as I asked in a previous thread? Throw the people a bone please.
- nosioptar 1y agoI'm just seeking clarification. It's pretty far out there for someone to form that strong of an emotional attachment to a piece of software. I couldn't tell if these people were serious or joking. At the end of the day, I don't have a problem with it. It does make me sad to think of how lonely someone in these groups must be.
- CompoundEyes 1y agoI think the threat of TikTok going dark was way more intense. I don’t use it but from what I saw online it was people crying, raging, talking about it ruining their lives and livelihoods.
- nosioptar 1y agoI must be getting old. I can't wrap my head around why anyone would really care if TikTok disappeared. There'd be a new source of brainrot videos by the end of the week.
- recursivecaveat 1y agoKeep in mind most popular tiktok videos are posted by people who post a lot of popular tiktok videos. So they're financially and emotionally invested in the platform. Even if XYZ Shorts is an essentially equivalent platform, the big scramble move-over is a great way to lose all your viewers.
- Fade_Dance 1y agoIt's an important provider of community for many people. For many it is their primary community and where they do the majority of their socializing, so the loss of the platform means the loss of their friendships and connections, as well as the loss of their main source of entertainment. Many of these people are also getting the majority of the information from the outside world from there as well, so their world goes dark in a sense. Quite understandable why they would be upset.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoRelated: The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839842
- animanoir 1y ago[dead]
- Iwan-Zotow 1y agoAI doesn't have a soul
- trallnag 1y agoNeither do we
- Iwan-Zotow 1y agoSpeak for yourself
- neuralkoi 1y agoI feel like this is proof AI has passed some emotional Turing test. What are the long term implications of individuals turning away from each other for support and turning towards AI to fulfill emotional needs?
- parodysbird 1y agoOr that these people are not suitable to have been judges in the setup of the Turing Test... People also fall for email spam with blatant misspellings, that doesn't mean email spam passes a Turing test, it means the people falling for it are marks.
- AIPedant 1y agoI think Tamagotchi effect is more appropriate than "some emotional Turing test." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi_effect
- charlie0 1y agoIs this actually real or just a great example of dead internet theory?
- Lockal 1y agoSince which moment people have expectation to see anything real on reddit? "Write a story how I am sad about gtp-4o loss", ctrl+c ctrl+v.
- nilsherzig 1y agoThis is actually real, there are a LOT of people over hat r/ChatGPT and I’m told TikTok who have some serious withdrawal symptoms. Apparently they liked to get their egos stroked all the time and can’t comprehend writing with a chatbot which acts a bit more differentiated. A assume OpenAI knew about this and calculated the amount of money it costed them to have a lot of people befriend their 4o model…
- nilsherzig 1y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkae1l/comment/n7ne3j7 https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkae1l/comment/n7... Looks like they are accurately bringing it back because of it
- nilsherzig 1y agoRead some more and honestly idk what to feel. Seems very sad from the outside, but I guess in a lot of cases it’s an improvement over the previous situation of the person?