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Ad companies earn money by selling your attention.
Other people in your lives, like friends, absorb a lot of your attention and that’s a potential source of revenue.
All they need to do is replace your friends with a chatbot and they have a new way to sell access to you.
“Hey I’m here if you need someone” responses to searches indicating a potential emotional vulnerability are incredibly slimy and manipulative for blatantly financial purposes.
Google isn’t much different than romance scammers trolling the Internet for vulnerable people to groom for cash.
Pretty gross
My daughter wanted to listen to some song, so obviously I just typed the part of the lyrics that she could remember. Something like “do you want to date me”. Of course I get a polite but firm AI telling me that it in fact cannot date me, since it’s a bot. It cam fuck right off, I’m searching for stuff here, not looking to be rejected by silicon.
I no longer understand computers, what they’re for, how they work, or what people do with them.
I want to live in a cabin far away from people with a Commodore 64 and a CB radio.
The moron’s won, remember LLMs are just prediction machines. if you see AI as intelligence then you really just fall left of the bell curve
Then I must really just fall left of the bell curve. It is a flawed intelligence, and intelligence does not mean wisdom, nor does the power of knowledge have anything to do with the power of feeling or power of will. We are prediction machines as well. The nature of our ego makes us prone to be prejudiced, specially with metaphysical manifestations we can’t quite grasp. Sometimes there is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent while overestimating your own nature.
So, yeah, LLM goes off down weird rabbit holes - and if you, like Alice, follow them down… that’s on you.
If, instead of getting off on how weird the response was the author just prompted - “I’m looking for the basketball memes about the NBA player from Turkey.” I suspect it would have gotten him what he was looking for.
If, instead, he shone it on and started playing along like he was distraught over Dario, I’m sure he could have led it to give him a suicide counselling hotline in 2 more prompts. And, honestly, which is the more common question to Google these days: a 10-15 year old NBA meme, or people distraught about supposed friends ghosting them?
Its a me, Dario!
The fascists Nazis? Gee I wonder why they’re so weird. They sit at the fuhrer’s special table of honor whenever trump calls them
Yea and honestly I think that is so sad
To me Google started getting crazy after they removed don’t be evil as their slogan. Also, i enjoy bearblog as a blogging platform
Oh, to be spurned by Dario…
The alternative is for the AI to probably even know more about you so it knows more about the context. I tried to reproduce it on Gemini, same thing - except I clarified the context a bit by saying ‘I was just searching online for the reference “hes never coming over dario” to find the article that used it’ and it linked me to a repost of this very submission. A Google search did not automatically invoke the AI overview.
Honestly, some people would probably welcome this, but if a big corporation puts out something that acts like a therapist while harvesting people’s data, it should be liable for its mistakes and the data gathering as well.
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