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Sounds both true and interesting. Any particularly wild and/or illuminating examples of which you can share more detail?

by toss1 9mo ago

hnuser123456 9mo ago
The "my boyfriend is AI" subreddit. A lot of people are lonely and talking to these things like a significant other. They value roleplay instruction following that creates "immersion." They tell it to be dark and mysterious and call itself a pet name. GPT-4o was apparently their favorite because it was very "steerable." Then it broke the news that people were doing this, some of them falling off the deep end with it, so they had to tone back the steerability a bit with 5, and these users seem to say 5 breaks immersion with more safeguards.
- Sabinus 9mo ago
  If you ask the users of that sub why their boyfriend is AI they will tell you their partner or men in general aren't providing them with enough emotional support/stimulation. I do wonder if they would accept the mirror explanation for men enjoying porn.
jaggederest 9mo ago
My favorite somewhat off topic example of this is some qualitative research I was building the software for a long time ago. The difference between the responses and the pictures was illuminating, especially in one study in particular - you'd ask people "how do you store your lunch meat" and they say "in the fridge, in the crisper drawer, in a ziploc bag", and when you asked them to take a picture of it, it was just ripped open and tossed in anywhere. This apparently horrified the lunch meat people ("But it'll get all crusty and dried out!", to paraphrase), which that study and ones like it are the reason lunch meat comes with disposable containers now, or is resealable, instead of just in a tear-to-open packet. Every time I go grocery shopping it's an interesting experience knowing that specific thing is in a small way a result of some of the work I did a long time ago.
anal_reactor 9mo ago
Classic example: people say they'd rather pay $12 upfront and then no extra fees but they actually prefer $10 base price + $2 fees. If it didn't work then this pricing model wouldn't be so widespread.
- 112233 9mo ago
  wow, framing. "people say they prefer quitting smoking, but actually they prefer to relapse when emotionally manipulated." The most commonly taken action does not imply people wanted to do it more, or felt happiest doing it. Unless you optimize profit only.

Sounds both true and interesting. Any particularly wild and/or illuminating examples of which you can share more detail?

by toss1 9mo ago

Sounds both true and interesting. Any particularly wild and/or illuminating examples of which you can share more detail?

hnuser123456 9mo ago

The "my boyfriend is AI" subreddit. A lot of people are lonely and talking to these things like a significant other. They value roleplay instruction following that creates "immersion." They tell it to be dark and mysterious and call itself a pet name. GPT-4o was apparently their favorite because it was very "steerable." Then it broke the news that people were doing this, some of them falling off the deep end with it, so they had to tone back the steerability a bit with 5, and these users seem to say 5 breaks immersion with more safeguards.

Sabinus 9mo ago
If you ask the users of that sub why their boyfriend is AI they will tell you their partner or men in general aren't providing them with enough emotional support/stimulation. I do wonder if they would accept the mirror explanation for men enjoying porn.

jaggederest 9mo ago

My favorite somewhat off topic example of this is some qualitative research I was building the software for a long time ago. The difference between the responses and the pictures was illuminating, especially in one study in particular - you'd ask people "how do you store your lunch meat" and they say "in the fridge, in the crisper drawer, in a ziploc bag", and when you asked them to take a picture of it, it was just ripped open and tossed in anywhere. This apparently horrified the lunch meat people ("But it'll get all crusty and dried out!", to paraphrase), which that study and ones like it are the reason lunch meat comes with disposable containers now, or is resealable, instead of just in a tear-to-open packet. Every time I go grocery shopping it's an interesting experience knowing that specific thing is in a small way a result of some of the work I did a long time ago.

anal_reactor 9mo ago

Classic example: people say they'd rather pay $12 upfront and then no extra fees but they actually prefer $10 base price + $2 fees. If it didn't work then this pricing model wouldn't be so widespread.

112233 9mo ago
wow, framing. "people say they prefer quitting smoking, but actually they prefer to relapse when emotionally manipulated." The most commonly taken action does not imply people wanted to do it more, or felt happiest doing it. Unless you optimize profit only.