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This subreddit is upset that OpenAI have changed their chatbot's personality (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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I have never used. But apparently GPT 4o is (was?) great at sycophancy. Now OpenAI have started routing emotionally loaded queries to GPT 5 which is emotionally detached. So these people are losing their AI companion.

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[–] gattonero2001@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A human being forced to live in an extremely individualistic and alienating society, counter to our natural disposition, experiences mental suffering derived from the lack of connection with other people and subconsciously seeks it from idealized representations of other human beings.

The result is an addictive and unhealthy parasocial relationship, which can currently be seen all over the capitalist world with "girl/boyfriend AI" but was already present in Japanese "idol culture" and kpop.

I assume this kind of thing doesn't happen in AES, or at least to a relatively insignificant extent.

[–] Xulai@mander.xyz 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You get it.

There are multiple solutions, though. Problem is- they’re all either forms of education or legal withholding.

Emotionally intelligent and technically intelligent folks don’t tend to fall for any form of AI mania. They understand it is a glorified parrot/auto-correct and thus it doesn’t hold any sort of magical or emotional appeal.

But the USA has gone through great lengths to ensure generations of children are functionally illiterate, emotionally fragile containers which are filled with messages of culture war and other propaganda to feed the war machine that is the USA. This cannot be rectified overnight; indeed not for at least a couple generations AFTER any exceedingly unlikely societal change.

China’s history over the last 50 years teaches us that change is possible, but only at the expense of the individualistic greed that fuels the USA.

[–] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

what is culture war lol

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aNChc351duk

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

psyops engineered to keep proles fighting each other

[–] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

wut? can you give an example?

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The entire gun control debate for one.

The problem is obviously Far Right terrorism, but the discussion is instead about "dangerous people" (vague, non-descriptive) that can get guns too easily.

The "solution" is to make it harder to get guns by making them pricier (classism) to obtain.

The only two talking points are "we need guns to stop bad guys" and "guns kill people so they're bad" and there's no middle ground between these two points.

Entirely nonsensical terminology like "assault weapon" (which means nothing) or how every terror attack is never called a terror attack or the perpetrator a terrorist because "shootings" and "shooter" emphasis the "uniqueness" of gun violence (even though a terror attack is still a terror attack regardless of the weapon used) have been invented to engineer this whole debate.

Trans people in sports, cops genociding black people, etc.

Just about every talking point in US politics is nonsense aimed at dividing people by keeping them misinformed.

[–] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

These all seem like important issues to me, of which there is a righteous communist solution. fyi I'm not American.

[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago

The difference is the signifiers have been largely removed from their original essence and come to mean something else entirely. Terms like "Gun Control" are symbols that represent quasi-political identity that has very little to do with literal firearms.

This exists in tandem with the actual, real thing that is gun violence, resulting in an obfuscatory ebb and flow where communication is impossible. Politicians and pundits invoke the symbols to identify with target demographics, but the underlying material reality underneath all the spectacle is largely disconnected.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago

They are important issues - that's not the problem.

The problem is that both the discourse & proposed "solutions" are presented in a manner of binary opposing options with neither being designed to actually address the problem. The idea is to keep the discussion going indefinitely.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 4 days ago

these people are weird

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

As a developer, I wonder why they don't just use the API where it is still available. It might even be usable without any client software via there own "playground" page.