There’s an entire active subreddit for people who have a “romantic relationship” with AI. It’s terrifying.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit
It was meant to be satirical at the time, but maybe Futurama wasn’t entirely off the mark. That Redditor isn’t quite at that level, but it’s still probably not healthy to form an emotional attachment to the Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I haven’t been to reddit in months, but I do need a laugh…
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I wouldn’t laugh. Those people fulfill a basic human need in a way they feel safe with - probably because this safety is missing from their life. It’s not healthy to be so attached to LLMs, but to become so attached they must feel pretty isolated. And LLM’s are a lot more interactive and responsive than Severus Snape, and he had lots of women “channeling” him.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I visited /r/myboyfriendisai and it was not funny.
It was genuinely fucked up on so many levels.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
they had incel subs, so im not surprised/.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
i was going to mention it, they were having a meltdown when altman made the new version available. granted some of them are probably AI posts themselves or trolls.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Don’t their partners kind of die each time a new chat is made?
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
LLMs do seem to be able to store the chats and work with the old material in new conversations, requiring an account of course. Idk, I haven’t personally used any of them that extensively.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.
not only that, but one that is fully owned and operated by a business that could change it any time they want, or even go out of business completely.
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
sure but you can absolutely run c.ai instances locally. 4o and it’s cross chat memory was probably more useful to these individuals though.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
These people are specifically attached to chatgpt 4o, they wouldn’t want c.ai either.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
After reading about the ELIZA effect, I both learned how people are super susceptible to this, and just need to remember the core tenants of it to avoid getting affected:
Veedem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m honestly surprised your’s is not the top comment. Like, whatever, the launch was bad, but there is a serious mental health crisis if people are forming emotional bonds to the software.
Artisian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Humans emotionally bond pretty easily, no? Like, we have folks attached to roombas, spiders, TV shows, and stuffed animals. Having a hard time thinking of anything X that I don’t personally know a person Y with Y emotionally engaged with X. Maybe taxes and concrete?
bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, agreed. It is concerning, but it’s hard to take all those comments too literally without actually knowing what’s going on with them.
That being said, there is a huge loneliness problem that’s been growing among pretty much every single developed country (and I’m sure it’s going on in developing countries, too, it’s just less studied/documented). Turns out, getting everyone addicted to looking at screens all day every day probably isn’t so healthy for social development.
However, just to be devil’s advocate: Are we certain social health was even great before modern tech? Or were these issues equally present but just undiagnosed/not studied/talked about?
Artisian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think we have sufficient data to say that social health is at least very different now. See the our-world-in-data topic page. In particular, one-person households have doubled.
rami@ani.social 2 months ago
Okay hold up. If you can get attached to a cat you can get attached to a spider. Getting attached to an AI is weird I agree but when you give a lil jumping spider water and it gets comfortable around you an just starts hanging out… There something behind those eyes, man, and that’s cool. Two living beings recognizing each other, maybe not as equals obviously, but outside of the predator-prey dynamic. Idk there’s beauty in that.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a human trait. Hell, we’ll even emotionally bond with a volleyball given circumstances.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I can fully understand? The average human, from my perspective and lived experience, is garbage to his contemporaries; and one is never safe from being hurt, neither from family or friends. Some people have been hurt more than others - i can fully understand the need for exchange with someone/something that genuinely doesn’t want to hurt you and that is (at least seemingly) more sapient than a pet.