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people tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI

Preying on the vulnerable is a feature, not a bug.

I couldn’t be bothered to read the article, so I got ChatGPT to summarise it. Apparently there’s nothing to worry about.

But how? The thing is utterly dumb. How do you even have a conversation without quitting in frustration from it's obviously robotic answers?

But then there's people who have romantic and sexual relationships with inanimate objects, so I guess nothing new.

those who used ChatGPT for "personal" reasons — like discussing emotions and memories — were less emotionally dependent upon it than those who used it for "non-personal" reasons, like brainstorming or asking for advice.

That’s not what I would expect. But I guess that’s cuz you’re not actively thinking about your emotional state, so you’re just passively letting it manipulate you.

Kinda like how ads have a stronger impact if you don’t pay conscious attention to them.

I know a few people who are genuinely smart but got so deep into the AI fad that they are now using it almost exclusively.

They seem to be performing well, which is kind of scary, but sometimes they feel like MLM people with how pushy they are about using AI.

Wake me up when you find something people will not abuse and get addicted to.

I plugged this into gpt and it couldn't give me a coherent summary.
Anyone got a tldr?

Do you guys remember when internet was the thing and everybody was like: "Look, those dumb fucks just putting everything online" and now is: "Look at this weird motherfucker that don't post anything online"

Clickbait titles suck

That is peak clickbait, bravo.

TIL becoming dependent on a tool you frequently use is "something bizarre" - not the ordinary, unsurprising result you would expect with common sense.

now replace chatgpt with these terms, one by one:

• the internet
• google
• facebook
• instagram
• tiktok
• reddit
• lemmy
• their cell phone
• news media
• television
• radio
• podcasts
• junk food
• money

I knew a guy I went to rehab with. Talked to him a while back and he invited me to his discord server. It was him, and like three self trained LLMs and a bunch of inactive people who he had invited like me. He would hold conversations with the LLMs like they had anything interesting or human to say, which they didn't. Honestly a very disgusting image, I left because I figured he was on the shit again and had lost it and didn't want to get dragged into anything.

I don’t know how people can be so easily taken in by a system that has been proven to be wrong about so many things. I got an AI search response just yesterday that dramatically understated an issue by citing an unscientific ideologically based website with high interest and reason to minimize said issue. The actual studies showed a 6x difference. It was blatant AF, and I can’t understand why anyone would rely on such a system for reliable, objective information or responses. I have noted several incorrect AI responses to queries, and people mindlessly citing said response without verifying the data or its source. People gonna get stupider, faster.