Sounds scary. I read a story the other day about a dude who really got himself a discord server with chatbots, and that was his main place of “communicating” and “socializing”
This anecdote has the makings of a “men will literally x instead of going to therapy” joke.
On a more serious note though, I really wish people would stop anthropomorphisizing these things, especially when they do it while dehumanizing and devaluing humanity as a whole.
But that’s unlikely to happen. It’s the same type of people that thought the mind was a machine in the first industrial revolution, and then a CPU in the third…now they think it’s an LLM.
LLMs could have some better (if narrower) applications if we could stop being so stupid as to inject them into things where they are obviously counterproductive.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Redditor as “a person active on Reddit”? I don’t see where I was talking about humans. Or am I misunderstanding the question?
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This dumbass is convinced that humans are chatbots likely because chatbots are his only friends.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sounds scary. I read a story the other day about a dude who really got himself a discord server with chatbots, and that was his main place of “communicating” and “socializing”
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This anecdote has the makings of a “men will literally x instead of going to therapy” joke.
On a more serious note though, I really wish people would stop anthropomorphisizing these things, especially when they do it while dehumanizing and devaluing humanity as a whole.
But that’s unlikely to happen. It’s the same type of people that thought the mind was a machine in the first industrial revolution, and then a CPU in the third…now they think it’s an LLM.
LLMs could have some better (if narrower) applications if we could stop being so stupid as to inject them into things where they are obviously counterproductive.