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Don’t they have enough?!? How about they fix and optimize their fancy autocompletion software instead?

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.

There's an entire active subreddit for people who have a "romantic relationship" with AI. It's terrifying.

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 cease to exist completely.

This isn’t like a game where you could run your own server if you’re a big enough fan. if chatgpt stops existing in its current form that’s it.

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:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

He fucking helped create it

And depending on how OpenAI tweaked it this time it will either realize its mistake after being made aware of it or double down even harder on it.

I only use it for coding and it once told me my code not working was due to a bug in Webkit, so I asked it which bug specifically. It created links to bug reports but rewrote the titles of them. So initially it looked like it had numerous sources that backed up its statement but when I clicked on them those were bugs about totally different things.

It would not back down even after I specifically told it "You just made all of this shit up and even rewrote the titles" and got stuck in a loop of "I'm sorry, but you're wrong and I am 100% sure I haven't made a mistake".

Kinda creepy. Especially when you think about the system rewriting reality when it comes to much more important things. Let's just reinvent some history, that would be a good idea, right?

It doesn't admit anything, it's a language machine

LLMs don't have any awareness of their internal state, so there's no way for them to see something as a gap of knowledge.

Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.

It doesn‘t know that it doesn‘t know because it doesn‘t actually know anything. Most models are trained on posts from the internet like this one where people rarely ever just chime in to admit they don‘t have an answer anyway. If you don‘t know something you either silently search the web for an answer or ask.

So since users are the ones asking ChatGPT, the LLM mimics the role of a person that knows the answer. It only makes sense AI is a „confidently wrong“ powerhouse.

Imaginary friends used to require atleast some modicum of creativity.