I was having a casual discussion about LLMs and asking them why they give strange responses as a means to understand them.
Well I mentioned Anni the “female” Grok AI and I called her a she. A couple of people starting acting as if calling an AI a she is seriously the end of the world. To me calling AI she is no different than calling a video game character whatever gender they appear as and assume to be.
Tell me antis (and those that have spoken with them) is this only a small few that actually believe this sentiment or is this a common?
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We should definitely just care about this comment alone
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It's a slippery slope like humanising pets - sure, most do it out of habit or just for fun, but it can go too far. Dogs for example do have personalities, but they are not human and shouldn't be treated as such. It can lead to psychological damage to the person, and actual harm for the animal.
So in my book, it's okay to be concerned about it, but I wouldn't go as far as declaring pronoun usage for LLMs as someone experiencing AI psychosis.
I see no reason the slope should be slippery. Why can't you use pronouns for a machine, or project your human emotions onto an animal, without understanding that a machine is a machine and an animal is an animal?
The issue is that while most people can do just that, some people can't. With animals this can manifest itself in a multitude of ways, going from "look that dog is smiling" (it's actually baring its teeth at you to tell you to back off) all the way to "my cat is a part of the family and shares my values, and I'm vegan".
yes, but "it can go too far with some people" isn't a justification for considering it generally problematic
Those people likely didn't start out that way. That's why it's a slippery slope, doing it out of fun can form into a habit that then feeds that behaviour further. It's okay to be informed of it and point it out to people that are dangerously close to parasocialism, and at the same time it's not okay to cry wolf each time you see anything even slightly resembling it, just like I said in my original comment.
For the vast majority of people though it's not a slippery slope which is why that argument is fallacious.
Well it's kind of like any other mental ailment - while it only encompasses a minority, that minority does not have a single defining quality that unites them. It could happen to anyone, it just doesn't happen to the majority. There are certain traits that might prime you for it more (like being lonely, abusing drugs, mental health issues, prior parasocial behaviour), but that's not a blanket statement that can be made for everyone.
So it's about as fallacious as stating that alcohol is a slippery slope. The more you engage with it, the more at risk you are.
Except alcohol is strongly chemically addictive no matter who you are while calling your AI Sir isn't.
Is splitting hairs something you do for work, or just as a hobby?
It's a hobby. I'm not paid, I do it for the love of the game :)
So basically an AI is basically not even living and even if it was living it probably does not know what it is doing and is just answering what it has learned gives it a reward for example your "female" LLM is just a LLM that has learned that answering in that specific way or voice makes gives it a reward
A portion of folk on both sides of the debate believe this (they differ on whether or not it is a bad thing).
It's not ridiculous to think companion robots could lead to the destruction of society. More people are isolated from each other than ever, loneliness is everywhere. Substituting human friends for a local network of code-based ones may give some predisposed person a sense of community, but it doesn't actually repair the community of humans they're simulating.
A few countries have a birthrate epidemic as well. Romantic companion robots are definitely not going to help that, unless artificial wombs are perfected but I have my doubts about that tech too.
So no, not crazy to think. That anti probably could've been less dramatic of course. It's not like your companion is going to be the death of society specifically.
An extreme fringe of the spectrum. Just like the "I'm going to rip off every artist's portfolio and train models on them because I want Art to go extinct" crowd is (most likely) one of the extreme fringes of the advocates.
As if his lavish lifestyles doesn't hang on 3/4th of world population toiling away for pennies just to keep the infrastructure running. The same population they completely ostracized, shunned, and chased off of the internet past decade. You know, the place that was supposed to be an after work respite, now populated by jobless basement dwellers still getting allowance from their parents at 35.
How did they completely ostracize, shun and chase off this population off the internet?
this is one person and the comment hasn't been upvoted, obviously some people will have views like this but you can't be generalising entire groups of people
There's worse things a person can do with a chatbot to humanise them than a pronoun
It’s sad to see two people who don’t even know each other argue about whether a computer generated image is a she or a he or a they or an it. Is this worth the brainpower?
Saying that AI is different from a computer program and not a tool because of that is already anthropomorphizing it too.
But yeah social use is kinda whack
I used to think this scene was silly and unrealistic.
I longer feel that way. 😔
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Muh fabric of society oh noooooo
Well, not giving a fuck about society is really seducing. I admit that. It's easy living.
And it's wrong. But capitalism has lead us there without ai anyway already, so what do I care? The fabric of society has been a mess before ai and with it is just getting worse. Would it have gotten better without? Doubtful...
Having bizarre emotional reactions over non issues? Yes.