• OldChicoAle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    13 minutes ago

    Do we honestly think OpenAI or tech bros care? They just want money. Whatever works. They’re evil like every other industry

  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    fall to my death in absolute mania, screaming and squirming as the concrete gets closer

    pull a trigger

    As someone who is also planning for ‘retirement’ in a few decades, guns always seemed to be the better plan.

    • daizelkrns@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Yeah, it probably would be pills of some kind to me. Honestly the only thing stopping me is that I somehow fuck it up and end up trapped in my own body.

      Would be happily retired otherwise

    • console.log(bathing_in_bismuth)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Dunno, the idea of 5 seconds time for whatever there is to reach you through the demons whispering in your ear contemplating when to pull the trigger to the 12gauge aimed at your face seems the most logical bad decision

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    AI is a mistake and we would be better off if the leadership of OpenAI was sealed in an underground tomb. Actually, that’s probably true of most big org’s leadership.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      There are various other reports of CGPT pushing susceptible people into psychosis where they think they’re god, etc.

      It’s correct, just different articles

  • Wren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    11 hours ago

    When you go to machines for advice, it’s safe to assume they are going to give it exactly the way they have been programmed to.

    If you go to machine for life decisions, it’s safe to assume you are not smart enough to know better, and- by merit of this example, probably should not be allowed to use them.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    482·
    22 hours ago

    Yeah no shit, AI doesn’t think. Context doesn’t exist for it. It doesn’t even understand the meanings of individual words at all, none of them.

    Each word or phrase is a numerical token in an order that approximates sample data. Everything is a statistic to AI, it does nothing but sort meaningless interchangeable tokens.

    People cannot “converse” with AI and should immediately stop trying.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      815·
      20 hours ago

      We don’t think either. We’re just a chemical soup that tricked ourselves to believe we think.

      • polydactyl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        6 hours ago

        Machines and algorithms don’t have emergent properties, organic things like us do.

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          21·
          4 hours ago

          The current AI chats are emergent properties. The very fact that I looks like it’s talking with us despite being just probabilistic models of a neural network is an emergent effect. The neural network is just a bunch of numbers.

        • remon@ani.socialEnglish
          22·
          6 hours ago

          There are emergent properties all the way down to the quantum level, being “organic” has nothing to do with it.

          • polydactyl@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            5 hours ago

            You’re correct, but that wasn’t the conversation. I didn’t say only organic, and I said machines and algorithms don’t. You chimed in just to get that “I’m right” high, and you are the problem with internet interactions.

            • remon@ani.socialEnglish
              22·
              5 hours ago

              There is really no fundamental difference between an organsim or a sufficently complicated machine and there is no reason why the later shouldn’t have the possibilty of emergent properties.

              and you are the problem with internet interactions.

              Defensive much? Looks you’re the one with the problem.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        20 hours ago

        A pie is more than three alphanumerical characters to you. You can eat pie, things like nutrition, digestion, taste, smell, imagery all come to mind for you.

        When you hear a prompt and formulate a sentence about pie you don’t compile a list of all words and generate possible outcomes ranked by statistical approximation to other similar responses.

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      I would expect that an AI designed to be a life coach would be trained on a lot of human interaction about moods and feelings, so its responses would simulate picking up emotional clues. That’s assuming the designers were competent.

  • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
    442·
    1 day ago

    imma be real with you, I don’t want my ability to use the internet to search for stuff examined every time I have a mental health episode. like fuck ai and all, but maybe focus on the social isolation factors and not the fact that it gave search results when he asked for them

    • pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafeEnglish
      8·
      23 hours ago

      I think the difference is that - chatgpt is very personified. It’s as if you were talking to a person as compared to searching for something on google. That’s why a headline like this feels off.

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      The whole idea of funeral companies is astonishing to me as a non-American. Lmao do whatever with my body i’m not gonna pay for that before i’m dead

      • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        53 minutes ago

        The idea is that you figure all that stuff out for yourself beforehand, so your grieving family doesn’t have to make a lot of quick decisions.

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11211·
    1 day ago

    Holy shit guys, does DDG want me to kill myself??

    What a waste of bandwidth this article is

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      133·
      23 hours ago

      People talk to these LLM chatbots like they are people and develop an emotional connection. They are replacements for human connection and therapy. They share their intimate problems and such all the time. So it’s a little different than a traditional search engine.

      • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        133·
        22 hours ago

        … so the article should focus on stopping the users from doing that? There is a lot to hate AI companies for but their tool being useful is actually the bottom of that list

        • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          19 hours ago

          People in distress will talk to an LLM instead of calling a suicide hotline. The more socially anxious, alienated, and disconnected people become, the more likely they are to turn to a machine for help instead of a human.

          • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            63·
            17 hours ago

            Ok, people will turn to google when they’re depressed. I just googled a couple months ago the least painful way to commit suicide. Google gave me the info I was looking for. Should I be mad at them?

            • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              31·
              17 hours ago

              You are ignoring that people are already developing personal emotional reaction with chatbots. That’s no the case with search bars.

              The first line above the search results at google for queries like that is a suicide hotline phone number.

              A chatbot should provide at least that as well.

              I’m not saying it shouldn’t provide no information.

              • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                11·
                16 hours ago

                Ok, then we are in agreement. That is a good idea.

                I think that at low levels the tech should not be hindered because a subset of users use the tool improperly. There is a line, however, but im not sure where it is. If that problem were to become as widespread as, say, gun violence, then i would agree that the utility of the tool may need to be effected to curb the negative influence

                • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  4·
                  16 hours ago

                  It’s about providing some safety measures to protect the most vulnerable. They need to be thrown a lifeline and an exit sign on their way down.

                  For gun purchases, these can be waiting periods of a few days. So you don’t buy a gun in anger and kill someone, regretting it immediately and ruining many people’s lives.

                  Did you have to turn off safe search to find methods for suicide?

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    22 hours ago

    1. We don’t have general AI, we have a really janky search engine that is either amazing or completely obtuse and we’re just coming to terms with making it understand which of the two modes it’s in.

    2. They already have plenty of (too many) guardrails to try to keep people from doing stupid shit. Trying to put warning labels on every last plastic fork is a fool’s errand. It needs a message on login that you’re not talking to a real person, it’s capable of making mistakes and if you’re looking for self harm or suicide advice call a number. well, maybe ANY advice, call a number.