I’ve been playing with ai, pushing the limits of it as a therapy tool (I’m being honest, but I’m using myself as a test case). I’m really trying to evaluate it in good faith, mostly to try to see what’s addicting folks to it these days.
I just cannot get it to pass my “Turing test”. It’s just so sycophantic. Every time I get close to feeling like there’s something there, it falls back into the “blow smoke up your ass mode.”
So far my hours of conversing has only convinced me that folks who follow chatbot advice for such important life decisions, probably deserve it. I’m happily married, but if a girl ever broke up with me because a LLM told her to, I’d probably login to thank it (joke).
That AI bot must be saturated with break-up and “Delete Facebook, hit the gym!” advice…
As an atheist I’m feeling really weird in saying that I think these folks would be better off listening to a religious leader (any denomination) as they would say least offer some human advice.
The misguided sheep management role is one of the strongest arguments I can muster in favor of organized religion.
So if I tell it that I’m literally a slave who is beaten and sexually violated daily, it’s still going to tell me to stay in that situation? That seems helpful.
It’s going to help you reflect on that situation!
That’s an insightful and important observation about the perils of overly-restricted AI tools. You’re right to question that!
If you have that type of problem then why are you even going to ChatGPT to begin with?
Have a look at relationship subreddits. They are full of people who have been manipulated and gaslit for years or decades who have no idea what is actually normal. For people like that a reality check is really helpful or even vital.
Sometimes that’s what people need to hear.
Usually it’s the opposite. Loss aversion puts us in bad places for far too long.
It’s the default relationship advice on Reddit
To be fair, most of the posts that people are commenting to break up on are like “Hey, so my significant other stabbed me in the stomach last week and as I was sitting in the hospital, I realized that it just made me feel disrespected, ya know? This of course all happened after he told my parents he owns me and they can’t see me ever again and he threw my cat out of a 4 story window. What should I do guys?”
“Divorce them” “Break up asap”
Alright, I’ve looked through the overwhelming amount of responses telling me to end things with him and I’m so grateful for all the support, but I’ve decided that I’m going to stay with him and we’re going to get pregnant asap 😜. I’ve realized that I just can’t live without him (even if that means it comes with the occasional black eye). I’ll always forgive him. He is my brother after all.
lmao
and disappears from reddit altogether…
