Zach
@zd
this isn’t true few people realize that the better the LLM gets the more interesting it will be it will - know more than your smartest friend - talk to you the way you want to be talked to - make you feel seen and heard more effectively than anyone else could this will happen really quickly, and soon enough you won’t have any idea you’re talking to AI and the best part is - you won’t care
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thoughtcrimeboss
@thoughtcrimeboss
Idk about you but please god I hope I'm never desperate enough to pretend an AI is my friend and I hope that the knowledge that an AI can never actually care about someone in anyway prevents people from using them to replace real relationships. Dystopia awaits us otherwise.
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Zach
@zd
your cast is full of assumptions: 1. that people viewing AIs as friends are “pretending” 2. that (1) is “desperate” 3. that AI will be “used” to “replace real relationships” so i ask you: 1. what if people aren’t pretending that they enjoy talking to AI? we’re already seeing this - so i’m curious why you think they’re “pretending”? 2. why is that desperate? 3. why do you assume AI is a replacement for relationships instead of something that could augment and improve them?
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thoughtcrimeboss
@thoughtcrimeboss
Part 2 Making friends with AI won't always be done out of "desperation", often it will just be done because it's easier. Friendship shouldn't be easy. Despite my hopes I believe people will definitely use AI to replace real relationships for a variety of reasons. Now if someone with social anxiety or something wants to use AI as a tool to help their real relationships, such as to develop their conversational skills before using that in meatspace, that's great more power to them. But to actually consider it as one of your friends, that's not good. That is wasted emotional capital that cant be reciprocated. It could of been used caring for another human in a world with an epidemic of loneliness. Emotional capital isn't unlimited.
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Zach
@zd
we’re all entitled to opinions, and i appreciate you sharing yours i don’t agree :)
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