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This is straight up mental illness. Yes, on the surface, it's ultra cringe but scratch a single layer deep and you already arrive at mental illness and it goes so much deeper from there.
Its easy to laugh at these people (it's kinda hard not to) but this is severe and untreated mental illness. It's way more serious than what it may deem at a glance. I hope this lady gets the help she needs.
I dont think this is cringe and im not laughing this is deeply saddening for me to read.
No doubt some of them are mentally ill. Guy I know who talks to his ai like this has brain damage from an accident. He’s still got capacity, just a bit weird.
But generally I think it’s more that if you were acting like this it’d be a cause for concern. You’re projecting your rationality onto everyone but recent times have taught us otherwise. If you’re a bit thick, can’t evaluate information or even know where to start with doing that; of course a machine that can answer your every question while sucking right up your arse is become a big part of your day-to-day.
I wonder what's going to happen to humanity when we all have personal LLMs running on our phones /PCs
(I'm imaging something like the ThunderHead from Arc of a scythe)
Like, will society still view deeply emotional relationships to LLMs as mental illness?
There will be groups of people who treat these programs as people, and grow attached to them on an emotional level. There will be groups of people who grow dependent on the programs, but don't see them as anything other than a tool. There will still be a deep-seated psychological problem with that, but a fundamentally different one.
Then there will be the people who will do their damnedest to keep those programs away from their technology. They'll mostly be somewhere on the fediverse (or whatever other similar services that pop up) and we'll be able to ask them.
People put googly eyes on their roombas and apologize to them when they bump into them.
This is honestly no heartbreaking. Regardless of what anybody thinks, this people are genuinely mourning what could be the closest they've had to a human connection in years. I don't what the solution is for vulnerable and lonely people like this, but it really is so sad
EDIT: after reading rayquetzatl's comment, I'm just more fucking mad at AI companies
It isn't a human connection.
They are mourning the loss of having a tool reflect their deepest psychological desires back at them.
They'll learn the lesson of a break up just like anyone else. They'll get over it and eventually find another chatbot.
It might even prepare them somewhat for IRL relationships. Things do not always work out and you can't count on the other part to always do as expected.
It could actually be interesting to give these bots less than ideal personalities just to teach the users how to interact with actual people. With some caution though, because I can definitely see that go really bad too.
This has some dystopian vibes
Her (2013, movie) vibes.
At least Her was actual AI and not a glorified autocomplete.
They're both a lot to unpack. Fucking an autocomplete? Thinking it loves you? That reminds me of people forming relationships with dolls.
Fucking a hyper realistic psuedohuman with the implication it can't say no / will be deleted when the user gets bored? If LLMs are affecting people while being what they are... I bet exploring fantasies with "real AI" would be turbometh for some people.
And Bladerunner 2049 (Joi) although both of those are much further advanced than LLMs acting as a mirror of your interactions pretending to be an entity. It's even debatable if Joi was sapient, or if it can be determined where the story leaves it. Sam certainly was, given the final results, and presumably we know when that happened, although not how.
People becoming attached to chatbots is hardly new, it's just that the bots are a lot more realistic now, especially for people who are vulnerable and want them to be real. Yet more damage that was predictable and yet no rules or safeguards were put in place to restrict these companies in doing what they want, or in how they got to this level.
They might be right about the mental illness part. o4 was fucking marrying everyone. What a hoe.
This shows you the importance of self hosting. Then your emotional toy will keep working.
"Yeah, my partner is trapped on my server..."
"I keep my partner in the basement" suddenly gets a new meaning
It would be the most human thing ever if AI fuckbots are what it finally takes to get people to care about planned obsolescence, right to repair and self-hostability.
Oh my god, the big horny might be the saviour after all
Everyone is terrified of all the social problems AI is causing, but maybe it will just encourage everyone to learn Linux and we'll achieve utopia.
I'm here to help, but I but replace real-life connections. Take care of yourself and keep your heart safe, okay? 💙
Okay even the talking machine was getting skeezed out and it can't think. At least it let him down nicely.
"AI husband". WTF. It's good those people get a well needed reality check... Seems like 5.0 is fixing some of its predecessor's shortcomings.
This feels like satire. Nobody correct me if it isn't, I don't want to be sad.
It’s not. There is a small but measurable portion of the population who have gotten romantically attached to AI chatbots.
I wouldn’t worry about it, there have been people like this as long as humans have existed. Like, people who claim to have relationships with ghosts, or fictional characters, etc.
It’s not it was about a week ago they ended up bringing the model back after getting hammered in an AMA.
4o would suck right up your arse and talk pure nonsense most people were glad to see the back of it but evidently if you’re a bit thick and/or desperate that’s really appealing.
Look how deluded most people are after a few naive botnets and algorithms that weaponised attention, shits about to get real weird.
This is what happens when you rely on corporate hosted solutions. If these people really must fall in love with an LLM, they should install one on their local PC and then start romancing it.
