• pieman@lemmy.ml
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    6 days 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

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      6 days 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.

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        6 days 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.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Not that I think that their relationships were healthy, but dude, c/selfhosted. Needing a subscription for something you plan to interface with daily forever is a recipe for financial burden. Giving control and maintenance of that software to another entity is a recipe for letdown.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    7 days 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.”

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      5 days ago

      Fallout 4, it was Paladin Danse IIRC.

      I like the Fallout series, but man, the Institute was such a badly written villain. They make synths, they treat them like robots, okay, that’s understandable. They had the tech to rebuild the country, but nooo, they chose to kidnap people and replace them with synth doppelgängers because fuck know why. They were inexplicably obsessed with duplicating people.

      Oh, and you don’t have to kill Danse, you can convince him to defect.

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    7 days 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.

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      6 days 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.

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        6 days 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.

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          6 days ago

          Adding a “please” and a “thank you” is probably good practice, literally, for communicating with sentient beings or simulacra thereof.

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    7 days ago

    People have been falling in love with scammers for as long as there have been people.

    Be there for your loved ones.

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
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    7 days 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.