Chatgpt-induced psychosis

[TokenLiberal]

Where did you sign up for that? 20/hr seems pretty good for an RLHF job. I thought they were having people in poor countries do that for pennies

[Michigan Swampbuck]

Look around, you'll find it. Always follow up, though, and find out if people are getting shafted. I'm sure you understand my reluctance to share the exact details.

[TokenLiberal]

Sure. Very curious about what they will have you do though.

I did have a quick look but didn't find anything, at least not for $20/hr.

[FCD]

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It requires intellectual honesty to use these properly at their full potential, so the vast majority of the population is unable to keep their biases and prejudices from tainting the process. If you ask a biased or politically boobytrapped question, it will give you biased answers. That's useful for understanding how the AI works and thinks, but it doesn't give a real answer that merits consideration. I think a lot of the use is people using it as a mental masturbation device (or literal sometimes). The use it to validate their opinions, much like they do with a Wikipedia or a Google search result... even if they have no real grasp of the topic it still provides validation.

People have been treating them like oracles since ChatGPT first rolled out. I'm not at all surprised people are feeding them their own delusions and then losing their already tenuous grasp on reality.

Bingo!  This is a dead-on assessment of AI.  Sadly though, you've also hit the nail on the head; many people use it to confirm their biases and fantastical conspiracy theories, claiming it to be irrefutable proof of anything and everything.  This tendency is one of the big threats I see with AI.  People will trust it so much, and will be just lazy enough, to start letting AI make critical life decisions for them, and/or society as a whole.  What's the old saying...if enough people start believing something, it becomes the truth, regardless if it's true or not.

When you couple this with all the techno-jargon used in today's discourse (i.e. acronyms, etc.), people and systems can learn the 'lingo' and appear to be far more intelligent than they really are.  Then, other people start believing stuff like this.

[NobodySpecial268]

(evil grin) How about instead of "chatbots" we call them . . .

Chatbutts.

[Michigan Swampbuck]

(evil grin) How about instead of "chatbots" we call them . . .

Chatbutts.

Man, if you could smell their breath!

[NobodySpecial268]

Man, if you could smell their breath!

LOL . . .

"Chatbutt" is a possible entry in the (online) Urban Dictionary. - I looked it up, it isn't there (smile) . . .

Move over George Orwell with your "newspeak", we have a new word, "buttspeak".

1984 is so old grandpa, this is 2025!

[Ksihkehe]

Man, if you could smell their breath!

I'm veering off topic, but we appear to be already sort of be there so it's a good time to mentioned it.

I just noticed the website links under your posts. It looks like between that and looking at the Michigan Chronoscope site (which I didn't know about before) there will be a full night or two of reading at least. I can't even tell how much volume there is from a quick glace, but I don't want to start until I have more time to dig in. The Chronoscope site has the aesthetic from what is probably the greatest period in Internet history. Just from my experience, of course. It was a much more interesting Internet then. There aren't many survivors left from then. Looks fun.

ETA: I meant sites surviving, not people, lol... we humans that were around are all getting old too, but we've done a lot better than the sites we visited back then.

[Michigan Swampbuck]

I'm veering off topic, but we appear to be already sort of be there so it's a good time to mentioned it.

I just noticed the website links under your posts. It looks like between that and looking at the Michigan Chronoscope site (which I didn't know about before) there will be a full night or two of reading at least. I can't even tell how much volume there is from a quick glace, but I don't want to start until I have more time to dig in. The Chronoscope site has the aesthetic from what is probably the greatest period in Internet history. Just from my experience, of course. It was a much more interesting Internet then. There aren't many survivors left from then. Looks fun.

ETA: I meant sites surviving, not people, lol... we humans that were around are all getting old too, but we've done a lot better than the sites we visited back then.

Thanks. Those pages were designed ages ago and only evolved based on the coding. I'd been coding websites with handwritten code for about 25 years now and got as far as HTML CSS. Look at the page source in your browser, and you'll see some "old school" work there. No hidden files for the CSS, so you could learn about that just by looking at the code.

The design was to mimic the local printed publications I had them published in back then. The whole thing has been heading in the direction of the fictional story I'm working on at the end. 

Also, I've just begun playing with PHP coding for designing forum boards like this one. There is a link at the end of every article or page of the essays. I'm using an open-source template to experiment with, but I haven't done much with that other than posting my own comments as the author of the stories.

Thanks for actually reading it, I can't even get my closest friends and relatives to check it out. With AI doing all the creative work these days, I'm not sure how much that matters anymore. The articles based on historical sources and the fictional work will be drowned by the flood of AI-generated content in the near future I fear.

[TokenLiberal]

AI is fortunately not doing all the creative work yet. I haven't read anything by AI other than a few articles here and there. It's not at the point of being able to write essays or books with any original thought yet. When it gets there, a lot of people (including me) will be out of a job.