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[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (19 children)

I couldn’t be bothered to read the article, so I got ChatGPT to summarise it. Apparently there’s nothing to worry about.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 6 days ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The quote was originally on news and journalists.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Something bizarre is happening to media organizations that use 'clicks' as a core metric.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It depends: are you in Soviet Russia ?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

In the US, so as of 1/20/25, sadly yes.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

Its too bad that some people seem to not comprehend all chatgpt is doing is word prediction. All it knows is which next word fits best based on the words before it. To call it AI is an insult to AI... we used to call OCR AI, now we know better.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago

That is peak clickbait, bravo.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Do you guys remember when internet was the thing and everybody was like: "Look, those dumb fucks just putting everything online" and now is: "Look at this weird motherfucker that don't post anything online"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Remember when people used to say and believe "Don't believe everything you read on the internet?"

I miss those days.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I remember when the Internet was a thing people went on and/or visited/surfed, but not something you'd imagine having 247.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I remember when internet was a place

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

TIL becoming dependent on a tool you frequently use is "something bizarre" - not the ordinary, unsurprising result you would expect with common sense.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (10 children)

If you actually read the article Im 0retty sure the bizzarre thing is really these people using a 'tool' forming a roxic parasocial relationship with it, becoming addicted and beginning to see it as a 'friend'.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (7 children)

now replace chatgpt with these terms, one by one:

  • the internet
  • google
  • facebook
  • instagram
  • tiktok
  • reddit
  • lemmy
  • their cell phone
  • news media
  • television
  • radio
  • podcasts
  • junk food
  • money
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I know a few people who are genuinely smart but got so deep into the AI fad that they are now using it almost exclusively.

They seem to be performing well, which is kind of scary, but sometimes they feel like MLM people with how pushy they are about using AI.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most people don't seem to understand how "dumb" ai is. And it's scary when i read shit like that they use ai for advice.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)

People also don't realize how incredibly stupid humans can be. I don't mean that in a judgemental or moral kind of way, I mean that the educational system has failed a lot of people.

There's some % of people that could use AI for every decision in their lives and the outcome would be the same or better.

That's even more terrifying IMO.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wake me up when you find something people will not abuse and get addicted to.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I knew a guy I went to rehab with. Talked to him a while back and he invited me to his discord server. It was him, and like three self trained LLMs and a bunch of inactive people who he had invited like me. He would hold conversations with the LLMs like they had anything interesting or human to say, which they didn't. Honestly a very disgusting image, I left because I figured he was on the shit again and had lost it and didn't want to get dragged into anything.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Negative IQ points?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

I don’t know how people can be so easily taken in by a system that has been proven to be wrong about so many things. I got an AI search response just yesterday that dramatically understated an issue by citing an unscientific ideologically based website with high interest and reason to minimize said issue. The actual studies showed a 6x difference. It was blatant AF, and I can’t understand why anyone would rely on such a system for reliable, objective information or responses. I have noted several incorrect AI responses to queries, and people mindlessly citing said response without verifying the data or its source. People gonna get stupider, faster.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This makes a lot of sense because as we have been seeing over the last decades or so is that digital only socialization isn't a replacement for in person socialization. Increased social media usage shows increased loneliness not a decrease. It makes sense that something even more fake like ChatGPT would make it worse.

I don't want to sound like a luddite but overly relying on digital communications for all interactions is a poor substitute for in person interactions. I know I have to prioritize seeing people in the real world because I work from home and spending time on Lemmy during the day doesn't fulfill.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not a lot of meat on this article, but yeah, I think it's pretty obvious that those who seek automated tools to define their own thoughts and feelings become dependent. If one is so incapable of mapping out ones thoughts and putting them to written word, its natural they'd seek ease and comfort with the "good enough" (fucking shitty as hell) output of a bot.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I need to read Amusing Ourselves to Death....

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

chatbots and ai are just dumber 1990s search engines.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I tried that Replika app before AI was trendy and immediately picked on the fact that AI companion thing is literal garbage.

I may not like how my friends act but I still respect them as people so there is no way I'll fall this low and desperate.

Maybe about time we listen to that internet wisdom about touching some grass!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

i can feel it too when I use it. that is why i use it only for trivial things if at all.

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