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

In the article they quoted the moderator (emphasis mine):

This whole topic is so sad. It's unfortunate how many mentally unwell people are attracted to the topic of AI. I can see it getting worse before it gets better. I've seen sooo many posts where people link to their github which is pages of rambling pre prompt nonsense that makes their LLM behave like it's a god or something,” the r/accelerate moderator wrote. “Our policy is to quietly ban those users and not engage with them, because we're not qualified and it never goes well. They also tend to be a lot more irate and angry about their bans because they don't understand it.”

It seems pretty clear to me that they view it as a problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Absolutely. And to be clear, the "researcher" being quoted is just a guy on the internet who self-published an official looking "paper".

That said- I think that's partly why it's so interesting that this particular group of people identified the problem, because this group of people are pretty extreme LLM devotees and already ascribe unrealistic traits to LLMs. So if they are noticing people "taking it too seriously" then you know it must be bad.

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

Yeeeeah that user doesn't really understand how these things work. Hopefully stories like this can get out there because the only thing that can stop predatory behavior by corporations is bad press.

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

What is that from? I didn't see it in the article.

 

Pretty freaky article, and it doesn't surprise me that chatbots could have this effect on some people more vulnerable to this sort of delusional thinking.

I also thought this was very interesting that even a subreddit full of die-hard AI evangelists (many of whom have an already religious-esque view of AI) would notice and identify a problem with this behavior.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It seemed fine to me....

....oh my

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly I'm just glad someone is out there doing this work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Heck yeah! Love when people share this kind of stuff.

 

Thought this was a really interesting read and felt my fellow Website enjoyers might think so too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure baldness is not a medical condition...

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

I will be dead in the cold cold ground before I ever type "/s"

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

I know it sounds insane but I swear to god BlueSky has astroturfing accounts on Lemmy. Every conversation (including yours here) about BlueSky is met with countless Sealions either saying it "will be federated soon" or asking "Why does federation matter?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is very cool! Thanks for sharing.

 
 
 
 

Very cool to see this topic in a place like Forbes, IMO.

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