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I ended my relationship because AI told me to
- bell-cot 1y agoVs. a Magic 8 Ball can't smoothly talk you into making horrible decisions. And everything you tell it isn't being sold on and used to monetize you.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- jalapenos 1y agoWho would publicly admit this, and even publicly talk about something this personal in this way? It's like the internet has made "attention whoring" the centre of our economy.
- satisfice 1y agoI am with you on this. Geez. You might as well say "I behaved irresponsibly and as I write this I am still irresponsible. What to do, O what to do??" How about take responsibility for yourself?
- alganet 1y agoThere is a lot of belief systems in place that shape how human relationships should be. Would you date someone that has a different political affiliation? Be friends with someone who holds different values? And so on... Digital algorithms now play a role in those belief systems, and the broadcasting of lifes in those digital platforms is a key part of it. The question "how to take responsibility for yourself?" and similar rejection attitudes nowadays act more like a public encouragement to self-shun. It is, in itself, an act of broadcasting with the explicit goal of interacting with such belief systems. The most obscene thing you can do in such an arrangement of beliefs is to expose one of the belief systems. It is kind of an attention grabbing mechanism, but very different from Kardashian-style media presence. It's way, way more obscene.
- satisfice 1y agoI think it simpler than all that: it’s enacting social order. This is not weird or transgressive or obscene. With our individual words and deeds we create a conceptual terrain that constrains social behavior. It’s a form of marketing. I get meaning from reminding my fellow adults about what it means to BE an adult, instead of a child. I am marketing a philosophy of living.
- alganet 1y agoTapestry of belief systems, conceptual terrain that constrains social behavior... same stuff. I don't claim he is the one being obscene. I think he's quite conservative (the idea of AI influencing behavior is not new and his example is simplistic). I was talking about myself attempting to describe these dynamics in more clear cut terms. It's also not universally obscene, it's obscene in a "everybody knows but you are not supposed to talk about it" way.
- pols45 1y agoAnd culture. Kim Kardashians empire is now worth 5 billion $$$. These new life forms the attention ecosystem produces hardly resembles anything seen in the past. Everyday people start adopting celebrity techniques. Visibility is like oxygen to them, while the pre-attention ecosystem life treat it as exposure. We are seeing two diverging sub species.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- abnercoimbre 1y agoI'm being called an offliner lately, which is one of the two sub species.
- allanmacgregor 1y agoYou are missing the best part, he closes the article offering a 50% discount on ChatGPT Premium
- jalapenos 1y agoOh my... whole new level of grotesque
- alganet 1y agoYou can't stop astrology. Humanity will never free itself from it. Someone you know probably uses it. Maybe that person will make decisions based on horoscope, and that in turn will affect your decisions. I think AI is going to be very similar. And maybe it even develops a less virulent benign strain (like astronomy), but the bad one will hang around forever.
- delichon 1y agoMy chatbot says that's a typical Aquarian attitude.
- 1659447091 1y agoYou may want to revisit your choice of chatbot -- it is clearly wrong. I see how it has a bias toward the typical Aquarian attitude by dismissing all the doom/gloom that gives away a Scorpio; and my chatbot agrees.
- zarmin 1y agoAstrology is not horoscopes. Stars and planets radiate energy. Some of that energy is visible light, most is not. Energy affects people physically and psychologically. The bodies in our solar system follow predictable cycles. To think that we are not affected by energy that hits the planet at regular intervals is silly. Does it control all of human behavior and events? Obviously not, but it's not doing nothing.
- jaredsohn 1y agoI don't think there is anything wrong with using AI to help make life decisions like this. You just need to know how to use AI, although people on average will misuse it in various ways. But those people will probably make similar mistakes making decisions in other ways anyway. I think there might be issues, though, as a lot of people initially trust AI as some oracle instead of using it to help organize their thoughts. And some people will likely never be able to use AI properly.
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- 112233 1y agoFixed local model? Maybe. An online service like google, chatgpt or whatsapp? No you cannot. It does not matter how well you are aware of risks, symptoms and effects of psychological self-manipulation by current batch of models. All it takes is either an update or one lapse in your psysec procedures, and you will get to observe from front seat your personality getting dismantled and corroded. No safe dosage.