It's reciting all the gibberish sci fi of humanity and being given functions to operate on whatever console some lab scientist gives them.
Unless you mean it's like eugenics, then yes, it's going to be just as stupid as eugenic and the belief that one set of visual phenotypes can predict social outcomes.
Which are not, like your chatbot girlfriend, indicative of reality.
While it's fun to debate airy fairy philosophical topics, there is a practical issue that needs to be dealt with: people are using chatbots to do things, and these chatbots are unpredictable in sophisticated, occasionally dangerous ways.
It doesn't take much imagination. One difference between a ten year old Garmin GPS device and ChatGPT is that there's a 0% chance the former will regurgitate behavior from Demon Seed and purposefully direct me to drive off a cliff.
These studies are entirely the same as roleplaying, and that roleplay only effects people stupid enough to wire an LLM into an integral system.
This feels like some sort of cognitive bias. Seems likely that "news" has almost always been carefully crafted narratives designed to enrich someone or some organization. We are now living in an age where commoners can discuss things like this on a widespread enough basis that this fact is becoming better appreciated.
https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
...is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
sebnado•8mo ago