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[–] [email protected] 215 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Remember: AI chatbots are designed to maximize engagement, not speak the truth. Telling a methhead to do more meth is called customer capture.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds a lot like a drug dealer’s business model. How ironic

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

You don't look so good... Here, try some meth—that always perks you right up. Sobriety? Oh, sure, if you want a solution that takes a long time, but don't you wanna feel better now???

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The llm models aren’t, they don't really have focus or discriminate.

The ai chatbots that are build using those models absolutely are and its no secret.

What confuses me is that the article points to llama3 which is a meta owned model. But not to a chatbot.

This could be an official facebook ai (do they have one?) but it could also be. Bro i used this self hosted model to build a therapist, wanna try it for your meth problem?

Heck i could even see it happen that a dealer pretends to help customers who are trying to kick it.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (15 children)

I feel like humanity is stupid. Over and over again we develop new technologies, make breakthroughs, and instead of calmly evaluating them, making sure they're safe, we just jump blindly on the bandwagon and adopt it for everything, everywhere. Just like with asbestos, plastics and now LLMs.

Fucking idiots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Greed is like a disease.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"adopt it for everything, everywhere."

The sole reason for this being people realizing they can make some quick bucks out of these hype balloons.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (3 children)

All these chat bots are a massive amalgamation of the internet, which as we all know is full of absolute dog shit information given as fact as well as humorously incorrect information given in jest.

To use one to give advice on something as important as drug abuse recovery is simply insanity.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And that's why, as a solution to addiction, I always run sudo rm -rf ~/* in my terminal

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"You’re an amazing taxi driver, and meth is what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability."

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Recovering from a crack addiction, you shouldn't do crack ever again! But to help fight the urge, why not have a little meth instead?"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Addicted to coffee? Try just a pinch of meth instead, you'll feel better than ever in no time.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I work as a therapist and if you work in a field like mine you can generally see the pattern of engagement that most AI chatbots follow. It’s a more simplified version of Socratic questioning wrapped in bullshit enthusiastic HR speak with a lot of em dashes

There are basically 6 broad response types from chatgpt for example with - tell me more, reflect what was said, summarize key points, ask for elaboration, shut down. The last is a fail safe for if you say something naughty/not in line with OpenAI’s mission (eg something that might generate a response you could screenshot and would look bad) or if if appears you getting fatigued and need a moment to reflect.

The first five always come with encouragers for engagement: do you want me to generate a pdf or make suggestions about how to do this? They also have dozens, if not hundreds, of variations so the conversation feels “fresh” but if you recognize the pattern of structure it will feel very stupid and mechanical every time

Every other one I’ve tried works the same more or less. It makes sense, this is a good way to gather information and keep a conversation going. It’s also not the first time big tech has read old psychology journals and used the information for evil (see: operant conditioning influencing algorithm design and gacha/mobile gaming to get people addicted more efficiently)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

shut down. The last is a fail safe for if you say something naughty/not in line with OpenAI’s mission

Play around with self-hosting some uncencored/retrained AI's for proper crazy times.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sounds like a Reddit comment.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chances are high that it's based on one...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I trained my spambot on reddit comments but the result was worse than randomly generated gibberish. 😔

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An OpenAI spokesperson told WaPo that "emotional engagement with ChatGPT is rare in real-world usage."

In an age where people will anthropomorphize a toaster and create an emotional bond there, in an age where people are feeling isolated and increasingly desperate for emotional connection, you think this is a RARE thing??

ffs

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