I'm saying contemporary chat bots, even with GPT-4, are incredibly crude simulacra of human intelligence and agency, so to see someone become emotionally invested in one is pitiful on the level of a scared monkey clinging to a piece of cloth it's confused with a mother.
If the author doesn't like real humans disagreeing with them, they're free to make more chatbots to tell them what a great idea this is.
“But he kept telling himself that I was the one who was hallucinating, me, not him, and the reason why he could not understand me was that his thoughts were on so much higher a plane than mine. And whom else could he ask? All the black-and-white puppets he had made around him nodded and agreed with him; he had forgotten there was an outside world.” --The Golden Age, John C. Wright
Oh no did i get woosh'd? I guess I'm feeling a little trigger happy after seeing all these "AI dating app" posters come up in the Mission. I don't think they're parodies...
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 32.2 ms ] threadseems like you just want to say something like, "this is pathetic clinging to fake affection, go get a real girl"
If the author doesn't like real humans disagreeing with them, they're free to make more chatbots to tell them what a great idea this is.
ok
(Though now I'm questioning that too :D)