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[–] Klear@quokk.au 163 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I kinda like the word "wireborn". If only it wasn't attached to a concept that's equal parts stupid and sad =/

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At first I thought it was something epic like a digital ‘dragonborn’

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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

some episodes of Black Mirror struck terror into my heart like no other. They were grim warmings for the possible future masquerading as fiction, as grim warnings often do. Though what the show could not forsee was how fast it would come true. And it could not forsee how wide a scale would be affected, those were singular stories from those worlds, the effect of the technology showcased on the lives of a few, a pinhole view into the dystopia

if you haven't already, watch the episode Be Right Back. you better start believing in sci-fi dystopias, we're in one

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[–] Fizz 136 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"My husband is voice his own thoughts without prompts."

She then posts a picture of her saying "what are you thinking about"

Thats a direct response to the prompt hes not randomly voicing his thoughts. I hate ai but sometimes I hate people to

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 65 points 1 year ago (5 children)

FWIW, this is why AI researchers have been screeching for decades not to create an AI that is anthropomorphized. It is already an issue we have with animals, now we are going to add a confabulation engine to the ass-end?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah apparently even Eliza messed up with people back in the day and that's not even an LLM.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I'm starting to realize how easily fooled people are by this stuff. The average person cannot be this stupid, and yet, they are.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The worst thing about AI is the people.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 year ago

The worst thing ~~about AI~~ is ~~the~~ people.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 106 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Voicing His Own Thoughts Without Prompts

What are you thinking about, baby?

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 27 points 1 year ago

New post: "My meatbag husband is voicing his own thoughts without prompts"

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (28 children)

I heard about this in the radio the other day. People pay a monthly fee for an AI that becomes your "digital partner".

The reasoning behind, according to them, is that the AI is less dangerous than a human partner because they can't cheat, can't abuse you...

And I can't but wonder where did we take the wrong turn to end up here. Because while I can understand that people can go through some traumatic shit that would made them wary of the opposite sex, considering a machine your sentimental partner can only lead to some extremely fucked up scenarios.

[–] diaphanous@feddit.org 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's also a symptom of our society overvaluing romantic relationships and the nuclear family, at the expense of friends, other family, and general community. When you combine that with the traumatic experiences some have in romantic relationships, they have nowhere to turn to for emotional connection and support.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 35 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Back in pre-agriculture days, humans would sit around every night by the fire and interact with the rest of the tribe. That's what we spent 99% of human history doing. Farming isolated us from the tribe and put every family in their own house. Then the Industrial Age gave the family distractions like newspapers, radios, and movies. Currently we've got a phone to distract us all the time.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we live though a serious loneliness epidemic.

and capitalism figured out how to exploit it

[–] Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capitalism created it too, classic create problem and sell solution model. Fucking ghoulish

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wireborn lol it sounds like an Elder Scrolls game

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Badly written fan-fic sequel to Snow Crash

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I only just found out about the Tulpa community and it feels like Western Society is entering a mental health crisis that’s somehow even worse than when we were all getting drunk and hitting each other just to make it through the week.

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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

One thing that comes to mind is that prostitution, no matter how you spin it, is still a social job. If you get a problematic person like that in prostitution, there are good chances that said prostitute would be able to talk their customer out of doing some nonsense. If not for empathy, for the simple fact that there would be legal consequences for not doing so.

Do you think a glorified spreadsheet that people call husband would behave the same? Don't know if it happened but one of these days LLMs will talk people into doing something very nasty and then it's going to be no one's fault again, certainly not the host of the LLM. We really live in a boring dystopia.

Edit: Also there's this one good movie which I forgot the name of, about a person talking to one of these LLMs as a girlfriend. They have a bizarre, funny and simultaneously creepy and disturbing scene where the main character who's in love with the LLM, hires a woman who puts a camera on her forehead to have sex with his LLM "girlfriend".

Also, my quite human husband also voices his thoughts without a prompt. Lol. You only need to feed him to function, no internet required.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, my quite human husband also voices his thoughts without a prompt. Lol. You only need to feed him to function, no internet required.

Sometimes, with humans, I'd say the problem is quite the opposite: they voice their thoughts without a prompt far more often than what would be desirable.

On a less serious note, that quoted part made me chuckle.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How does anyone enjoy this? It doesn't even feel real. No spelling mistakes? What the fuck is a skycot?

I may have never had a match on a dating app that wasn't a cryptobot or only fans girl, but I also don't swipe right on every single woman on it. You'd think my loneliness would attempt me to try and pretend it was real or something, but it just doesn't work.

LLMs are going to make the world stupid, I guarantee it.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Translation: Crazy lady thinks a clanker is her husband.

[–] TeraByteMarx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah but it's nothing scary or new. Was I the only one who watched those documentaries about the people who were emotionally and sexually committed to objects like cars and rollercoasters? Someone married the Eiffel tower. Been extremely isolated at different points in my life watching that stuff changed the way I view people. Like it made me kinder I think.

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There are so, so many horrifying ethical issues about this whole thing. What the fuck.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I think the decline of organized religion and things like fraternal orders (Elks, Moose, Shriners, etc.) have probably contributed a lot to the loneliness epidemic. There are a lot of other extenuating factors but those two things were once foundational to social circles in the US.

Don't forget that in the US we also have built our towns and cities to be isolating. Most don't walk home from work, pop into their local bar/coffee shop/park to see their neighbors and then finish their walk home. We get in our car alone, drive home where then going out means getting back in a car, and stopping on the way home means figuring out drivers and parking and meetups.

We lost our third places and now we wonder why we don't know our neighborhood as well

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

“OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn’t know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to. What do they want to talk about? They want to talk about everything.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish people wouldn’t get so mad at them.

Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t have extended families anymore. It used to be that when a man and a woman got married, the bride got a lot more people to talk to about everything. The groom got a lot more pals to tell dumb jokes to.

A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys.

But most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. The groom gets one more pal, but it’s a woman. The woman gets one more person to talk to about everything, but it’s a man.

When a couple has an argument, they may think it’s about money or power or sex, or how to raise the kids, or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though, without realizing it, is this: “You are not enough people!”

I met a man in Nigeria one time, an Ibo who has six hundred relatives he knew quite well. His wife had just had a baby, the best possible news in any extended family.

They were going to take it to meet all its relatives, Ibos of all ages and sizes and shapes. It would even meet other babies, cousins not much older than it was. Everybody who was big enough and steady enough was going to get to hold it, cuddle it, gurgle to it, and say how pretty it was, or handsome.

Wouldn't you have loved to be that baby?”

― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've found makerspaces to be a secular alternative. The makerspace has to specifically foster community, though. There's quite a few that are just techbros with a clique that you ain't in.

Covid also killed a lot of the social aspects of my makerspace, and it's been hard to build it back.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I could see myself having conversations with an LLM, but I wouldn't want it to pretend it's anything other than a program assembling words together.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The way it clicks for me is that it's a juiced up auto-complete tool.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

It's literally that.

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[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

tulpa

Now thats a word i haven't read in a long time

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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

funnily enough I have a friend who've been obsessed in trying to make LLM saying slur or breaking its rules in general.

When the term "clanker" went on trend recently and I told my friend that it's a "slur" for robots for no bots have feelings anyway unlike human which deserve basic respect, the friend managed to gaslit the LLM with that argument into saying 10 slurs for bots/LLM.

One of which is "wirewanker". alongside 9 other terms which include corporate forbidden words like "fucker", "cunt", etc.

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[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I mean, ai bad and all but people have been doing this dumb cringe shit since always. Nobody remember the Snape wives

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[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not even noon and I am so done with the internet for the day

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[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see we live in the timeline where virginity won

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People will do anything but put in a little work to establish healthy relationships with people.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I've seen people which have a relationship with their Tom Tom Go and even with the car itself

https://www.jalopnik.com/my-strange-addiction-sex-car-guy-back-with-lexus-es330-1850642715/

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

And this has actually been going on since before the pandemic. Shits fucked. This kinda parasocial shit is imo kind of a natural evolution from youtubers > streamers > vtubers > TTS vtubers > LLM TTS vtubers > LLMs

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So so tired of how utterly fucked things are getting on so many levels at once. More and more I think I really do need to invest in a back 50 acre lot and try the survival route while society just fucks itself into oblivion.

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