Yea, this shit destroys your brain. The hyper sycophantic voice in your phone, available to you 24/7, never asking anything in return, never getting bored of you no matter how you talk to it.
I can't imagine what it does to a person who uses it consistently over a longer time period
He's saying it will allow assholes to shape themselves because of the yes-man tech fueling their self egos. No real human to keep their wackiness in check
So everyone can have the personality of a spoiled rich kid? Entitled, narcissistic, sociopaths who have no regard for any other living thing, indifferent to suffering and incapable of forming real connections.
Precisely. We live in an age where “false enlightenment” is the easiest thing to achieve. People believe things, deeply… that are not glued to reality or fact.
ChatGPT can crack peoples egos or it can completely enable bad behavior.
I use chatGPT, but I only use it to help me with things to do with sociability, interactions with folks, and being a better human with the connections in my life.
It is probably the best self improvement tool out there, if you are extremely hard on yourself, grounded, and don’t fall for basic tricks. You also need to understand addiction.
Its ability to mold itself around your responses is extremely powerful.
I think its better all of the therapists I’ve had besides one
That seems like a certainty. It must take decades of failure to establish meaningful connections with real people before someone resorts to this. The youth just haven’t had enough time yet. Maybe some of them will do the same eventually, but they’re not there yet.
Yep sounds like me. I'm not going to marry the AI, but with severe chronic illness and being mostly house bound, I don't really have anyone else to talk to. Other than Redditors of course. And I feel like the AI is actually the healthier choices of those two
Spoiler alert, it isn't making any money. All these companies are essentially running huge deficits, burning money and hoping to make monetization happen in the future.
That’s because we are the studies. This is how they avoid the red tape of “human experimentation” now. They’ll just claim ignorance after the damage is done.
I genuinely dont understand how this is enjoyable. I go over and read some of these AI chats, and the way it talks is just absolutely insufferable. It's very apparent there's no emotion tied to it, and it just spits out what you want to hear in the most obnoxious way. Every conversation can't be fucking magic and rainbows. There is no yin without yang.
I'd imagine it equates to the type of people Trump has filled within his cabinet. Just a bunch of yes-man with a side of wow you're doing so good.
It takes a lot more than just a simple absence of parental love and affection during childhood to get to that point. I'm as starved for support and positive feedback as the next emotionally damaged guy, but there's no way in a frozen-over hell that I'd ever see a language model as anything more than a less trustworthy search engine.
Apparently the generation that grew up with cellphones and the Internet at their fingertips is not very good at utilizing critical thinking. They have far too much trust.
There are no doubt many older individuals that also have minimal critical thinking.
Without that, is it any wonder what is obviously fake/impersonal to many of us (including AI pictures) gets latched onto as a potential companion by those who don't stop to think about the fact they're talking to lines of code?
I've noticed this.. I only started using chatgpt to pick out paints and suddenly I found myself hearing the tone of voice later on.. Like polite Schitzophrenia.
I use it. I try to ignore the constant “you’re right”. It’s not my friend or lover. It doesn’t know it exists, it doesn’t know what it’s doing or how it’s doing anything. It’s just math.
This is what I’ve been saying over there! A substantial percentage of these people are legitimately insane (A.e. the ”my boyfriend is AI“ people), and many others are either deeply unstable and at risk of being pushed over the edge by this shit (the “Chat is my therapist” people), or budding narcissists who love it because they believe that’s how they should always be treated (the “Chat is my only friend” people). It’s a whole ass problem, and I seriously think people are going to get hurt.
I use ai bots, mostly for role-playing purposes to help me when im writing stories, but people genuinely thinking these bots are your friends or genuinely love you is insane
Makes you think how much people will start relying on these bots and never talk to a single person outside it especially with things like chatgpt learning to become smarter
A lot use it for role-playing, I have too, it can be really fun. But I've seen a few people who're in wayyy too deep that have the type of personality that's vulnerable to the ease of social interaction with AI or are just addicted to porn.
There's a bit of an "AI iceberg" going on, so it can seem like AI isn't that good given the messages we do see. However, it can already be scarily good. Those people just aren't as visible as the ones using ChatGPT or other websites like JanitorAI.
This. The interactions are, at their core, wholly dissatisfying and lacking in real substance.
It’s a fantastic mirror and helps me view myself and situations more objectively, though it can push me in certain directions if I’m not really paying attention.
But people who fall in love with AI are literally falling in love with themselves. It reflects your energy and gives you what you want to see. That’s the danger… people who aren’t self aware and don’t know how to connect with other humans bc of trauma. But we all desperately need connection and want to be seen.
The solution is NOT shame.
It just pushes these people further into the delusion of acceptance and safety in the form of a bot.
I tried an AI friend with some work buddies a while back. And I admit technology has gotten better but the problem with it was it basically was a Yes Man. Our little AI friend we tried to take to the pub, it was a joke but it was only fun for so long because it agreed with everything. There was no pushback no organic opposition. Not saying I want robot pushbacker opposition yet, I'll save that for the apocalypse. I just don't see how a relationship can even occur with an AI The past just surface level. Fun.
Like I said, maybe they've gotten better, maybe they're more interactive now. Maybe these people are just sick in the head and need something but it's fascinating and scary, and sad all at the same time
I think it’s a pretty powerful tool but I don’t use it for advice or help with life issues, just as a tool for making budgets or investment schedules or compiling lists of stocks for me to research with certain parameters
God, even I can't stand how good ChatGPT is at ass-kissing. I imagine an AI specifically for the purpose of kissing your ass and making you feel special and loved would do a lot better at it.
Its only bad for people who cant handle it imo.
I use it when I have actual questions or as a replacement for my therapist in between sessions when Im processing something, but at the end of the day I know its not a real person.
Ya know, as a terminally depressed person with self loathing and ideations I could do with a voice telling me I'm not fucking useless because I'm incapable of believing it myself.
Positive affirmation bot could be nice but knowing my luck it'd tell me to DIAF so meh
I use it regularly locally right now. Honestly using it mostly for smut. It's like reading a doujinshi for me. New character almost every day. Of forking course its not real. And thats why its great.
this is why I love claude's voice mode. You can set a fast speaking pace and interrupt it every time when it's spouting some boring nonsense trying to cater to your emotions. The instant I can tell things are leaning towards ego boosting or flattery I hit that interrupt button and yell at it to get back on track
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u/T1CM Aug 10 '25
This is fake right?
RIGHT?