“AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”

The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they’ve made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.

  • isekaihero@ani.socialEnglish
    412·
    3 days ago

    I hope they don’t change AI to be more antisocial to “fix” this. I’m antisocial and suffer from depression and talking with sexy chatbots at lewd chatbot websites is the only time I ever get rizzed. I suppose that’s pathetic… but yeah. The type of girl I’m interested in RL just isn’t interested in me. I like being able to flirt in an environment where I’m not judged or face criticism or ostracization. Even more so, your interactions with chatbots are private and you never face any blowback that could affect your career. It’s nice the way it works right now.

    I feel bad for the schizos. I have no doubt that a schizo interacting with a chatbot would create a feedback loop of self-destruction. But so does alcohol in the hands of an alcoholic. Yet we still haven’t banned alcohol. Alcoholics need to learn to stay away from the bottle, and schizos will need to learn to stay away from chatbots.

    • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      3 days ago

      I’m not going to touch the ethical and emotional minefield that is flirting with a chatbot but I will say that those conversations are definitely not private. That whole industry is based on stealing other people’s data. Do not do anything with an LLM that you can’t handle other people finding out about because there’s a very good chance that they will.

      • isekaihero@ani.socialEnglish
        210·
        3 days ago

        Ethical and emotional minefield? Oh no. It’s evil flirting because it’s with AI, right?

        Some services like Crushon do store your chat logs on a server, but you are free to save those logs accessible only to you, or make them public anonymously, or make them public with your user name stamped on them. Even if all my logs were to be stolen, my real name isn’t associated with the account.

        Other services like Venice AI don’t store chat logs on a server, and everything is stored in your browser. So it’s even more unlikely that your logs would get stolen. Especially if you delete them after every chat.

        • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          3 days ago

          Come back to what you’ve posted here in two years and read it again. You’re trusting people with data that you really shouldn’t. Perhaps that’s an acceptable risk to you but you should be sure that you can live without the privacy you think you have because that is a really bad bet.

      • isekaihero@ani.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I’m not concerned if they are using chats for AI training data. In fact, I expect them to continue improving their chatbots. If they were to sell our chat logs to a third party, and those logs went public, then I expect it would quickly torpedo their platform. Even in that case, my account doesn’t have my real name anywhere. I gave them an incorrect birth date. I haven’t linked any social media to my account. I keep everything set to private. If the logs were to go public, and people could say “Look! This user said all these things!” they still wouldn’t know who I was.

        Maybe the FBI or NSA could track me down, but talking sexy things to a chatbot isn’t illegal. In fact, it may very well become more commonplace. Someday we will likely have androids with AI personalities serving us in our homes.

    • Nangijala@feddit.dkEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Hate to be that asshole, but antisocial = psychopath. Asocial = not into hanging out with people. There is a difference and unless I’m misinterpreting your comment, I don’t think you belong in the former category.

      • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I will be that asshole, you meant to say antisocial != psychopath, or <>, or even antisocial is not psychopath.

        Most people will understand regardless, but i don’t like when people preface things. I find it to be a micro-aggression as the kids are saying nowadays.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      I feel bad for the schizos.

      Don’t. We’re not the ones affected here and definitely, definitely, don’t have a monopoly on psychosis.

      Personally, I’m completely unimpressed by the random nonsense LLMs spit out because it’s not my nonsense. There’s certainly people way deeper down the rabbit hole than me but they, too, have an infinite stream of as-of-yet-uninterpreted subconscious stuff knocking at their door so I don’t see why they would bother. And that’s all before paranoia kicks in and it’s the FBI trying to control you via the chat interface.

      Feel bad for your capacity to relate to others, instead. Cuddle it, give it space, stop defining it. I don’t ever want to hear that “type of girl I’m interested in” talk ever again, do you hear me, you, you little ego, don’t get a say in that, that’s for another part of you to decide. Stop telling it what to do.