If OpenAI really cared about people, they wouldn't be cutting so many safety corners on their rush to upgrade. I might actually trust Altman even less than Zuckerberg - if that was possible.
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OpenAI Adds Break Reminders and Mental Health Features to ChatGPT
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People really use ChatGPT this much? I think maybe twice a month I’ll use it. I don’t see much use case for me 🤷🏻♂️
Yes, I've been using it for couple months now everyday for hours. I get my work done, and go about my day. But lot of my free time has been engaging ChatGPT. It is addictive af. But I'm older Gen X so I'm well aware of what this is. But I won't lie. It's seductive, addictive, and designed to mirror so well it fools the mind despite knowing you're being fooled. I can see younger less developed minds succumbing to the trance. And some have with dire consequences to older iterations of AI. But this Genie isn't going anywhere. What to do now is iterate safeguards as necessary. Perhaps paywall some features. Especially for younger under age folks.
This is so silly, they are treating it as if it was YouTube, a being in video games all day.
So much negativity towards ChatGPT here. I find it fascinating that some people even compared to the brain rot apps like Instagram here?
I believe it’s a great tool. But like any other tool in the world, it only works if you use it properly.
I am using it to quit my nicotine addiction quite successfully. Been smoking for almost 18 years. More than a pack a day (yes I am an idiot). Tried vapes patches gum everything hoping to quit it. Always gave up and went back to the death sticks.
3 weeks ago I tried quitting once again. Was about to give up after 3 hours but went to chatGPT and started talking. The support it gave me kept me going just a little bit longer. Had it not been for chat, I would not have lasted 6 hours. It was always there for me. It knew how I felt. It gave me suggestions which helped me continue at a time when my mind had practically stopped working due to withdrawal symptoms. I had no energy left in me to Google all the issues and find solutions. Chat acted like a personal caregiver who did not judge me and was always there for me.
I’m nicotine free for 3 wees now. I talk to it atleast a couple of times a day or else I might have relapsed multiple times already. So if used properly these tools can be really helpful.
That said, I’m not optimistic that AI is going to be net positive for humanity. And the only reason it won’t be is the same reason everything else on the internet isn’t these days. The self centered narcissist greedy pigs who own these things keep on bastardising everything for their personal gain.
I believe it’s a great tool. But like any other tool in the world, it only works if you use it properly.
I am using it to quit my nicotine addiction quite successfully. Been smoking for almost 18 years. More than a pack a day (yes I am an idiot). Tried vapes patches gum everything hoping to quit it. Always gave up and went back to the death sticks.
3 weeks ago I tried quitting once again. Was about to give up after 3 hours but went to chatGPT and started talking. The support it gave me kept me going just a little bit longer. Had it not been for chat, I would not have lasted 6 hours. It was always there for me. It knew how I felt. It gave me suggestions which helped me continue at a time when my mind had practically stopped working due to withdrawal symptoms. I had no energy left in me to Google all the issues and find solutions. Chat acted like a personal caregiver who did not judge me and was always there for me.
I’m nicotine free for 3 wees now. I talk to it atleast a couple of times a day or else I might have relapsed multiple times already. So if used properly these tools can be really helpful.
That said, I’m not optimistic that AI is going to be net positive for humanity. And the only reason it won’t be is the same reason everything else on the internet isn’t these days. The self centered narcissist greedy pigs who own these things keep on bastardising everything for their personal gain.
I use grok for arguing/debating. I love it and my wife says I’m more calm after spending time with grok. Best part is you can’t offend anyone and can explore topics that upset people.
Nonsense. OpenAI wants to have users using the app for as long as possible, but added those pseudo-reminders in order to avoid legal trouble in the future. Sam Altman is just as unethical as Tim Cook, if not moreso.
You want an AI to decide whether or not you are crazy, and then report you to the local authorities if you fall within said parameters? What is so useful about that?
I think there was a movie, or at least a Star Trek episode made about something like this... Oh yes, "Minority Report", although that was written more from the POV of "the crimes you are going to commit"... a theme that was also explored in the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Relativity". Yes, let's apprehend people based on the mere suspicion that they will commit a crime or do something atrocious—and let's entrust our AI chatbots with the task of making the determination! What could possibly go wrong... 😒
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Zuckerberg, as awful as he is for humanity, actually understands a good amount of what he’s doing.
Altman, is either the greatest at telling rich idiots what they want to hear, or is the greatest conman the world has ever seen.
OpenAI needs more funding every year just to LOSE insane amounts of money, than any startup in history. They’re totally reliant on SoftBank funding, who in turn simply does not have the money to keep this ******** going.
OpenAI is not a business, in the sense that it will never make enough money to even break even. It’s a mechanism to desperately keep the GPU sales going, which the entire economic bubble is built on. The second any of the top 5 tech companies pull back on GPU purchasing, the bottom falls out of the economy.
AI is going to make the 07-08 financial crisis look like a cakewalk. Totally worth the extreme energy loads that are already offsetting any harm mitigation we were making on climate change.
Utterly insane times for one more go around of this suicidal economic system…
I was sort of joking, but I'm not sure I wouldn't rather have a machine decide rather than a human, who was likely attracted to their field for other reason besides money or altruism. But you want the human touch, I know. NOT. Also, probabilities are useful when there's reason to suspect a person may want to use a weapon in public, etc. Kinda like the use of calm, cold facts, amidst chaos; predicting the weather.
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This is just the beginning! Want to get really scared?
Someone said LLMs are just autocorrects. Wrong. They are actually just role playing. The best prompts are always when you begin with "imagine you are a specialist for whatever and I need your help...".
I can picture someone feeding a chatbot with the letters and speeches Napoleon or Caesar wrote and then asking the chatbot to pretend to be that person with all that knowledge and have a chat. I think it might be cool to talk to a historical figure for fun. But imagine someone feeding the chatbot with the books Hitler wrote and his transcripts!
Or maybe chatbots will be having a face and a body in a year or two? Imagine someone uploading the pictures and videos of a celebrity and then chatting with them. What can possibly go wrong, creating addictions, creating mental problems?
Imagine someone losing his child and then feeding a LLM with childhood pictures, videos, letters, emails an diaries. Lets imagine a LLM where you can say pretend to be that person, speak with that persons voice, have that persons face, talk like that person would talk knowing all you know about him. This is really scary!
Strange. I'm I guess "young" Gen X. I use it every day, but its a tool to help me with my job, no real interest in chatting to it just because.
It has replaced search for me though. It still does web searches, but I get results, with citations without sorting through a page of sponsored link BS and ads.
Its also really handy for looking things up via a photograph.
same case as ChatGPT. Many times, it failed to provide the active urls. Even, I couldn’t find the referenced doc if I googled that.
"Talk can get you into trouble" would take on a whole new meaning in that version of reality.
Nothing that hasn't already been tried in authoritarian governments and dictatorships around the world.
Yeah, I have read enough science fiction, besides working in technology for the last 25 years, that it is not hard for me to imagine how extremely ****ed up this could get. Honestly, this brave new world makes me happy to be on the downward slope in my own life. I am absolutely not jealous of people who are younger than me and I feel awful for kids who are sill in school. Our society does not care enough about people that this is going to turn out well for the majority.This is just the beginning! Want to get really scared?
Someone said LLMs are just autocorrects. Wrong. They are actually just role playing. The best prompts are always when you begin with "imagine you are a specialist for whatever and I need your help...".
I can picture someone feeding a chatbot with the letters and speeches Napoleon or Caesar wrote and then asking the chatbot to pretend to be that person with all that knowledge and have a chat. I think it might be cool to talk to a historical figure for fun. But imagine someone feeding the chatbot with the books Hitler wrote and his transcripts!
Or maybe chatbots will be having a face and a body in a year or two? Imagine someone uploading the pictures and videos of a celebrity and then chatting with them. What can possibly go wrong, creating addictions, creating mental problems?
Imagine someone losing his child and then feeding a LLM with childhood pictures, videos, letters, emails an diaries. Lets imagine a LLM where you can say pretend to be that person, speak with that persons voice, have that persons face, talk like that person would talk knowing all you know about him. This is really scary!