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>A lot of people use Claude as a friend/therapist/romantic partner People developing a para-social (pseudo-social?) relationship with a corporate robot have fa
by nemo 2mo ago
>A lot of people use Claude as a friend/therapist/romantic partner
People developing a para-social (pseudo-social?) relationship with a corporate robot have far bigger problems than the word-chooser in their robot "friend".
- summarybot 2mo agoVery intelligent people need intelligent-others to bounce ideas off of, and the LLM can be that.
- Helloworldboy 2mo ago[dead]
- kergonath 2mo agoVery intelligent people should be able to grasp that a LLM is not intelligent.
- sailfast 2mo agoHave you tried to "rubber duck" an idea with an LLM. The latest models are pretty damnably good at it.
- kergonath 2mo agoI have, and I still do this occasionally. I don’t believe the plant on my desk (I don’t have a rubber duck) is intelligent. I don’t need it to be intelligent, either. I also do it with a LLM every now and then and, while it’s feedback is more useful than a toy’s, it does not need to be intelligent either.
- nemo 2mo agoYes, I use LLMs this way, they're not friends, not therapists, not persons, they're tools, like a word/language calculator.
- mossTechnician 2mo agoEven intelligent people have demonstrated they are not immune to the damaging effects of AI sycophancy. The most recent example that comes to mind is Hank Green.