It's pretty far out there for someone to form that strong of an emotional attachment to a piece of software. I couldn't tell if these people were serious or joking.
At the end of the day, I don't have a problem with it. It does make me sad to think of how lonely someone in these groups must be.
The porn too. Not chat gpt but other models. It lets you write good erotic lit. Erotic illustrations. Then will talk you out of depressive funk.
Those are probably more valuable to society than using LLM's to increase Blackrocks quarterly profits .005%.
I'm imagining society in which many millions of people is constantly interacting with robots to tweak their emotional state. I'm not sure that that's adding value to society or creating a better human society.
I guess with Tamagotchi, people played along with having their natural instincts hacked, they understood that they were actually just dealing with a dumb toy. With ChatGPT it seems a bit less straightforward, for those people who are strongly affected by being buttered up.
I hope they add back models selectors mostly
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
"Write a story how I am sad about gtp-4o loss", ctrl+c ctrl+v.
A assume OpenAI knew about this and calculated the amount of money it costed them to have a lot of people befriend their 4o model…
Looks like they are accurately bringing it back because of it
nosioptar•6mo ago
jki275•6mo ago
krapp•6mo ago
Human connection can be difficult and dangerous, and a lot of people are deeply antisocial or fearful of interaction. Many peoples' primary means of communication was already through the abstraction of the internet before AI came along and a whole generation lost years of potential social development time to lockdowns.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that people connect with AI more deeply than they do to real people. AI is almost perfectly designed to encourage parasocial relationships.
treetalker•6mo ago
Still, I'm with you on this one: there are at least some real people who seriously feel like that (TFA) about LLMs and it's pretty bonkers.
bigyabai•6mo ago
coffeefirst•6mo ago
jerlam•6mo ago
100-ish upvotes is nothing compared to groups with ideas like flat earth or sovcit.
nosioptar•6mo ago
walthamstow•6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667362
coatmatter•6mo ago
It does however remind me of all the numbers of novice chess players who would rather play against "AI" or chess bots than face up against humans, for reasons of fear or shame in playing against (anonymous) human opponents, and risk looking "stupid" or being silently judged by someone they'll never meet or interact with.