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Last time they tried to do this they got huge push back from the AI boyfriend people lol

by __loam 8mo ago

cactusplant7374 8mo ago
I wonder if they have run the analytics on how many users are doing that. I would love to see that number.
- NitpickLawyer 8mo ago
  > only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT‑4o each day. If the 800MAU still holds, that's 800k people.
michaelt 8mo ago
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- jbm 8mo ago
  It's a growing market, although it might be because of shifting goal posts. I had a friend whose son was placed in French immersion (a language he doesn't speak at all). From what I was understanding, he was getting up and walking around in kindergarten and was labelled as mentally divergent; his teachers apparently suggested to his mother that he see a doctor. (Strangely these "mental illnesses" and school problems went away after he switched to an English language school, must be a miracle) I assume the loneliness epidemic is producing similar cases.
  - doormatt 8mo ago
    > I had a friend whose son was placed in French immersion (a language he doesn't speak at all). In my entire french immersion Kindergarden class, there was a total of one child who already spoke French. I don't think the fact that he didn't speak the language is the concern.
    - pxc 8mo ago
      In what sense is it "immersion" if there are only one or two French speakers in the room (the teacher and an assistant?)??
- WarmWash 8mo ago
  They control reddit and used to control twitter. There is/was an interesting period where "normies" were joining twitter en-masse, and adopted many of the denizens ideas as normal widespread ideas. Kinda like going on a camping trip at "the lake" because you heard it's fun and not realizing that everyone else on the trip is part of a semi-deranged cult. The outsized effect of this was journalists thinking these people on twitter were accurate representations of what society on the whole was thinking.
  - greenchair 8mo ago
    good observation. twitch has even more loons.
- liveoneggs 8mo ago
  wasn't there a trend on twitter to have a bio/signature with a bunch of mental illness acronyms?
simonw 8mo ago
/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/ is a whole thing. It's not a joke subreddit.
- bananaflag 8mo ago
  And it's a pity that this highly prevalent phenomenon (to exaggerate a bit, probably the way tech in general will become the most influential in the next couple years) is barely mentioned on HN.
  - pxc 8mo ago
    I dunno. Tbf that subreddit has a combination of - a large number of incredibly fragile users - extremely "protective" mods - a regular stream of drive-by posts that regulars there see as derogatory or insulting - a fair amount of internal diversity and disagreement I think discussion on forums larger than it, like HN or popular subreddits, is likely to drive traffic that will ultimately fuel a backfiring effect for the members. It's inevitable, and it's already happening, but I'm not sure it needs to increase. I do think the phenomenon is a matter of legitimate public concern, but idk how that can best be addressed. Maybe high-quality, long form journalism? But probably not just cross-posting the sub in larger fora.
    - __loam 8mo ago
      Part of me thinks maybe I erred bringing this up, but there's discussions worth having in terms of continued access to software that's working for people regardless of what it is, and on if this is healthy. I'm probably on a live and let live on this but there's been cases of suicide and murder where chatbots were involved, and these people are potentially vulnerable to manipulation from the company.
  - nomel 8mo ago
    > highly prevalent phenomenon Any numbers/reference behind this? ChatGPT has ~300 million active users a day. A 0.02% (delusion disorder prevalence) would be 60k people.
moomoo11 8mo ago
Those people need to be uploaded into the Matrix and the data servers sent far, deep into space.
leumon 8mo ago
well now you can unlock an 18+ version for sexual role-play so i guess its the other way around

Last time they tried to do this they got huge push back from the AI boyfriend people lol

by __loam 8mo ago

Last time they tried to do this they got huge push back from the AI boyfriend people lol

cactusplant7374 8mo ago

I wonder if they have run the analytics on how many users are doing that. I would love to see that number.

NitpickLawyer 8mo ago
> only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT‑4o each day. If the 800MAU still holds, that's 800k people.

michaelt 8mo ago

[flagged]

jbm 8mo ago
It's a growing market, although it might be because of shifting goal posts. I had a friend whose son was placed in French immersion (a language he doesn't speak at all). From what I was understanding, he was getting up and walking around in kindergarten and was labelled as mentally divergent; his teachers apparently suggested to his mother that he see a doctor. (Strangely these "mental illnesses" and school problems went away after he switched to an English language school, must be a miracle) I assume the loneliness epidemic is producing similar cases.
- doormatt 8mo ago
  > I had a friend whose son was placed in French immersion (a language he doesn't speak at all). In my entire french immersion Kindergarden class, there was a total of one child who already spoke French. I don't think the fact that he didn't speak the language is the concern.
  - pxc 8mo ago
    In what sense is it "immersion" if there are only one or two French speakers in the room (the teacher and an assistant?)??
WarmWash 8mo ago
They control reddit and used to control twitter. There is/was an interesting period where "normies" were joining twitter en-masse, and adopted many of the denizens ideas as normal widespread ideas. Kinda like going on a camping trip at "the lake" because you heard it's fun and not realizing that everyone else on the trip is part of a semi-deranged cult. The outsized effect of this was journalists thinking these people on twitter were accurate representations of what society on the whole was thinking.
- greenchair 8mo ago
  good observation. twitch has even more loons.
liveoneggs 8mo ago
wasn't there a trend on twitter to have a bio/signature with a bunch of mental illness acronyms?

simonw 8mo ago

/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/ is a whole thing. It's not a joke subreddit.

bananaflag 8mo ago
And it's a pity that this highly prevalent phenomenon (to exaggerate a bit, probably the way tech in general will become the most influential in the next couple years) is barely mentioned on HN.
- pxc 8mo ago
  I dunno. Tbf that subreddit has a combination of - a large number of incredibly fragile users - extremely "protective" mods - a regular stream of drive-by posts that regulars there see as derogatory or insulting - a fair amount of internal diversity and disagreement I think discussion on forums larger than it, like HN or popular subreddits, is likely to drive traffic that will ultimately fuel a backfiring effect for the members. It's inevitable, and it's already happening, but I'm not sure it needs to increase. I do think the phenomenon is a matter of legitimate public concern, but idk how that can best be addressed. Maybe high-quality, long form journalism? But probably not just cross-posting the sub in larger fora.
  - __loam 8mo ago
    Part of me thinks maybe I erred bringing this up, but there's discussions worth having in terms of continued access to software that's working for people regardless of what it is, and on if this is healthy. I'm probably on a live and let live on this but there's been cases of suicide and murder where chatbots were involved, and these people are potentially vulnerable to manipulation from the company.
- nomel 8mo ago
  > highly prevalent phenomenon Any numbers/reference behind this? ChatGPT has ~300 million active users a day. A 0.02% (delusion disorder prevalence) would be 60k people.

moomoo11 8mo ago

Those people need to be uploaded into the Matrix and the data servers sent far, deep into space.

leumon 8mo ago

well now you can unlock an 18+ version for sexual role-play so i guess its the other way around