Lordy. Just put your phone down go outside and just interact with humans.
AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’
Submitted 1 day ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/22/ai-chatgpt-new-model-grief
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THX1138@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Humans elected trump, and are just the worst. This isn’t even new information. The old phrase in the 1970s was “people suck”. Probably some old classic car that still has that bumper sticker somewhere.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Humans” didn’t elect trump, US-Americans did.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 1 day ago
If only it were that easy.
Most third places have either disappeared, or been replaced with ones that you can only really enjoy if you're able to spend money every time you go there (e.g. bars, theaters, cafes, clubs, etc).
Many small towns are only getting smaller, leaving people that still live in them with less and less people to talk to.
Economic circumstances are consistently getting worse across the board, meaning people are spending more time at work just to stay alive, rather than being able to easily arrange to spend time somewhere with people.
It's not like it's impossible, obviously, but the state of the world is actively discouraging prosocial behavior through both cost and just circumstance.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah I’m good thanks. I don’t even want to talk to an AI.
Now going outside and befriending some small creature, or hugging a few trees? That sounds nice.
survirtual@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That does sound nice.
wordmark@mas.to 17 hours ago
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod @THX1138 yes PLZ #hugtree and post pic :D
Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Humans aren’t much better sometimes.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
I don’t really want those people talking to me.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
THX-1138
Gotta watch this film again.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 1 day ago
Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Those people needed help even before ShitGPT.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Humans are fucked
arin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well humans made me realize that Facebook’s main reason for being awful was that more people joined… Same with reddit… More normal people joined…
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s not just who’s on there. It’s also how the platforms promote content into your feed. When I was on Facebook in 2008 the friend feed was just that. Just people I mutually knew IRL posting. Facebook hadn’t yet figured out how to really monetize it. Advertisers were not as on it. SEO wasn’t really a thing yet.
Fast-forward 5-6 years and it really grew into an all-encompassing thing. Yeah, more people were on it, but so were the marketable opportunities. So were the suggested posts. So were all the news organizations, the grifters, the advertisers… and Facebook’s role in all of that is to promote the most outrageous and engaging content to you to keep you on the site longer than ever before. They have it down to a science.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol. Reminds me of a dialogue chain in Fallout 3 or 4 where one of the Brotherhood dudes finds out he’s a synth, so you kill him. Later ask his buddy if he misses him, and the dude says something like “That’s like missing a toaster. We don’t have time to mourn lost equipment.”
pieman@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
LLMs should only be thought of as a really complicated search engine/database. Attaching a personality to them and treating them as your friend is crazy
breecher@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
They should not even be thought of as that, that is how you get people to think they can replace actual search engines with llms.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
What do you even get back in search engines that is better? Ads? The AI articles that are wrong anyways?
Yeah GPT is not great, but the better alternative is not search engines.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
then maybe don’t get so attached to something fully owned and operated by a 3rd party that can change it on a whim. or even kill it completely.
Goretantath@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ikr, self host for christs sake!
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
techbros be normal challenge
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Countdown to articles (that take themselves very seriously) about people getting really upset over the term “clanker lover”
unpossum@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Clanker wanker?
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Not that I think that their relationships were healthy, but dude, c/selfhosted. Needing a subscription for your companion is a recipe for financial burden.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Gross.
FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like saying goodbye to a crazy neighbor you know.
piskertariot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People have been falling in love with scammers for as long as there have been people.
Be there for your loved ones.
Pentoxus@kbin.earth 1 day ago
#NotTheOnion
Just to be clear on that one.Pathetic bunch of lads and gals.
ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s pretty pathetic!
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 1 day ago
They still exist bro. Just use a different frontend like t3 chat.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The people you are responding to don’t hang around here.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 1 day ago
That’s raises the question why it was posted here
Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not a big user of AI but a suck up chat bot sounds like pain to interact with
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 day ago
.. dude.
grvtrkr05@piefed.social 1 day ago
AI lovers ought to go touch grass
Talaraine@fedia.io 1 day ago
Yeah you can tell ChatGPT-5 to act like 4o. You can even put it into a permanent system prompt. I do think the 4o personality was much chummier, but I'm mainly irritated at what's already been mentioned here. You put down money for an experience, you like the experience, and then they're like YOINK.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve never picked up on a personality from an LLM this strongly. I can’t tell if it’s active resistance or evidence I’m somewhere on the spectrum.
tleb@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I think it depends on how you engage with it. I work with some younger people who are active AI users, and they call chatgpt “he” or “she” and prompt it like a conversation with a person. Their responses are a lot more conversational vs mine which are more direct.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Ah, yes, I do avoid being too conversational.
I find it difficult to not throw in a “please” though.
That’s interesting insight, thanks for sharing.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
AI lovers should grieve their lost brain cells.