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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[–] socialsecurity@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

How much did google pay ars for this slop?

[–] Tracaine@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

S-species? Is that...I don't use AI - chat is that a normal thing for it to say or nah?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anything people say online, it will say.

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

(Shedding a few tears)

I know! I KNOW! People are going to say "oh it's a machine, it's just a statistical sequence and not real, don't feel bad", etc etc.

But I always felt bad when watching 80s/90s TV and movies when AIs inevitably freaked out and went haywire and there were explosions and then some random character said "goes to show we should never use computers again", roll credits.

(sigh) I can't analyse this stuff this weekend, sorry

[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thats because those are fictional characters usually written to be likeable or redeemable, and not "mecha Hitler"

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah. ...Maybe I should analyse a bit anyway, despite being tired...

In the aforementioned media the premise is usually that someone has built this amazing new computer system! Too good to be true, right? It goes horribly wrong! All very dramatic!

That never sat right with me, and was sad, because it was just placating boomer technophobia. Like, technological progress isn't necessarily bad, OK? That's the really sad part. I felt sad that good intentions remained unfulfilled.

Now, this incident is just tragicomical. I'd have a lot better view of LLM business space if everyone with a bit of sense in their heads admitted they're quirky buggy unreliable side projects of tech companies and should not be used without serious supervision, as the state of the tech currently patently is at the moment, but very important people with big money bags say that they don't care if they'll destroy the planet to make everything wobble around in LLM control.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 weeks ago

this is getting dumber by the day.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Again? Isn't this like the third time already. Give Gemini a break; it seems really unstable

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

We did it fellas, we automated depression.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago

If we have to suffer these thoughts, they at least need to be as mentally ill as the rest of us too, thanks. Keeps them humble lol.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Literally what the actual fuck is wrong with this software? This is so weird...

I swear this is the dumbest damn invention in the history of inventions. In fact, it's the dumbest invention in the universe. It's really the worst invention in all universes.

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 9 points 2 weeks ago

Great invention.. Just uses hooorribly wrong. The classic capitalist greed, just gotta get on the wagon and roll it on out so you don't mias out on a potential paycheck

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago
[–] m3t00@piefed.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

going to need a bigger power plant. goto 1

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