Sounds like a lot of these people either have an undiagnosed mental illness or they are really, reeeeaaaaalllyy gullible.
For shit’s sake, it’s a computer. No matter how sentient the glorified chatbot being sold as “AI” appears to be, it’s essentially a bunch of rocks that humans figured out how to jet electricity through in such a way that it can do math. Impressive? I mean, yeah. It is. But it’s not a human, much less a living being of any kind. You cannot have a relationship with it beyond that of a user.
If a computer starts talking to you as though you’re some sort of God incarnate, you should probably take that with a dump truck full of salt rather then just letting your crazy latch on to that fantasy and run wild.
rasbora@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah, from the article:
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
So it’s essentially the same mechanism with which conspiracy nuts embolden each other, to the point that they completely disconnect from reality?
rasbora@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That was my take away as well. With the added bonus of having your echo chamber tailor made for you, and all the agreeing voices tuned in to your personality and saying exactly what you need to hear to maximize the effect.
It’s eery. A propaganda machine operating on maximum efficiency. Goebbels would be jealous.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
The time will come up when we look back fondly on “organic” conspiracy nuts.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
human-level? Have these people used chat GPT?
rasbora@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I have and I find it pretty convincing.