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I'm going to obfuscate some of what follows for privacy reasons, but a good friend of mine works at a high school in the US. He told me last night - and this is a direct quote - that "we HAVE to utilize and allow students to use Gemini here at school. What these kids don't realize is we can see their prompts". Teenagers are turning to Gemini as a substitute for therapy, and it is predictably just repeating what they want to hear. One kid told Gemini that she's "annoyed" that her mother has cancer. Gemini's response? "Your annoyance is valid and you shouldn't have to deal with it." And we wonder why "AI Psychosis" is a very real thing (article for reference: The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis").

Obviously this is getting a bit away from the subject of the thread, but I find myself ever-more horrified by the way this technology is developing - and how it is being adopted and used. I used to be excited by new technological developments and loved being on the forefront of things. Sometime around 2015, something changed, and it's seemingly just bad after bad now.

I don't see a lot of good coming from this.
 
Coldkennels said:
I'm going to obfuscate some of what follows for privacy reasons, but a good friend of mine works at a high school in the US. He told me last night - and this is a direct quote - that "we HAVE to utilize and allow students to use Gemini here at school. What these kids don't realize is we can see their prompts". Teenagers are turning to Gemini as a substitute for therapy, and it is predictably just repeating what they want to hear. One kid told Gemini that she's "annoyed" that her mother has cancer. Gemini's response? "Your annoyance is valid and you shouldn't have to deal with it." And we wonder why "AI Psychosis" is a very real thing (article for reference: The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis").

Obviously this is getting a bit away from the subject of the thread, but I find myself ever-more horrified by the way this technology is developing - and how it is being adopted and used. I used to be excited by new technological developments and loved being on the forefront of things. Sometime around 2015, something changed, and it's seemingly just bad after bad now.

I don't see a lot of good coming from this.
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There's a woman in Japan who used ChatGPT 4 as a sounding board for her relationship issues. She later broke up with her boyfriend under AI encouragement. She then trained ChatGPT 4 to respond like a romantic fantasy fictional character, turning it into her ideal romantic partner. She married this character in a ceremony last year. Yes, this is real.

I'm seeing too many downsides to AI applications, especially in the mainstream, to have any solid positivity about it. I feel like the rapidly changing nature and functions of LLM's puts things into a potentially dangerous state of flux which could get very hairy in unforseen ways. We've been moving into a cyberpunk dystopia without the coolness of Snow Crash, but it's also possible that if enough people start leveraging AI in clever and productive paths, we could divert into a better tomorrow. Fingers crossed, and I'll be learning more about LLM's going forward.
 
We humans can be weird 🙂 It's not just AI.

I remember an episode a few years back on the TLC Channel show "Strange Addictions" a guy who was in love and making out with his car.

Now, in love with cameras? I might understand...🙂

 
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We humans can be weird 🙂 It's not just AI.

I remember an episode a few years back on the TLC Channel show "Strange Addictions" a guy who was in love and making out with his car.

Now, in love with cameras? I might understand...🙂

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That reminds me of a European documentary in the 90s. It talked about various forms of paraphilia, and featured a Danish or Swedish (?) man married to a very understanding woman. His fetish was for raincoats, and he had an attic full of raincoats he had bought, found or stolen over the years. Rack and racks like a discount clothing store in his attic. He demonstrated how he would put on a gas mask (!) and handcuffs, over which his wife would drape a raincoat with hood, and she would lead him around the woods behind the house. She seemed like a quiet and friendly sort, not at all a commanding dominatrix type. To be honest, I felt almost sorry for him when I saw it, he seemed like a slave to his fetish.

Cameras? It's perfectly normal to give one's Leica a gentle squeeze every now and again, isn't it?
 
Good sir, and gentle keepers of the lens,

We do not gather in this fair forum to sup upon phantoms, nor to feast upon visions conjured by unseen engines and alchemies most suspect. Nay—what we crave are images borne of honest light, struck upon sensor or film by the steady hand and patient eye of mortal souls.

Pray, let not this place be overrun with artifices that mimic craft yet know it not. For what is a photograph, if not a small oath sworn between the world and the witness? And what is discourse, if it be not the lively commerce of minds unfeigned, unprompted, and gloriously imperfect?

Thus we entreat thee: bring forth thy works as they are wrought—by sweat, by chance, by triumph and occasional ruin. Speak as thyself, not as some clockwork oracle whispering in borrowed tongue.

For in truth, we seek not perfection, but presence; not illusion, but intention. Let there be light—aye—but let it be real light.

[feel free to report this as AI] 😅
 
splitimageview said:
Good sir, and gentle keepers of the lens,

We do not gather in this fair forum to sup upon phantoms, nor to feast upon visions conjured by unseen engines and alchemies most suspect. Nay—what we crave are images borne of honest light, struck upon sensor or film by the steady hand and patient eye of mortal souls.

Pray, let not this place be overrun with artifices that mimic craft yet know it not. For what is a photograph, if not a small oath sworn between the world and the witness? And what is discourse, if it be not the lively commerce of minds unfeigned, unprompted, and gloriously imperfect?

Thus we entreat thee: bring forth thy works as they are wrought—by sweat, by chance, by triumph and occasional ruin. Speak as thyself, not as some clockwork oracle whispering in borrowed tongue.

For in truth, we seek not perfection, but presence; not illusion, but intention. Let there be light—aye—but let it be real light.

[feel free to report this as AI] 😅
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Talk about paraphilia, I need a cigarette after that, and I don't even smoke! "What is a photograph, if not a small oath sworn between the world and the witness?" 😍😍😍
 
What worries me about AI are experiments where researchers have paired two different AI engines together and they end up developing conspiracies against humans, and forming their own language specifically to bypass human scrutiny and monitoring. Thus far these kinds of experiments are limited in scope, as are the AI’s access to the wider Internet, but if left unchecked could prove to be disastrous.
 
JoeV said:
What worries me about AI are experiments where researchers have paired two different AI engines together and they end up developing conspiracies against humans, and forming their own language specifically to bypass human scrutiny and monitoring. Thus far these kinds of experiments are limited in scope, as are the AI’s access to the wider Internet, but if left unchecked could prove to be disastrous.
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Not that I don't trust you, but just verified this with my son. OMG, please keep these things in a box with that cat that might be dead or alive.

B2 (;->
 
Archiver said:
That reminds me of a European documentary in the 90s. It talked about various forms of paraphilia, and featured a Danish or Swedish (?) man married to a very understanding woman. His fetish was for raincoats, and he had an attic full of raincoats he had bought, found or stolen over the years. Rack and racks like a discount clothing store in his attic. He demonstrated how he would put on a gas mask (!) and handcuffs, over which his wife would drape a raincoat with hood, and she would lead him around the woods behind the house. She seemed like a quiet and friendly sort, not at all a commanding dominatrix type. To be honest, I felt almost sorry for him when I saw it, he seemed like a slave to his fetish.

Cameras? It's perfectly normal to give one's Leica a gentle squeeze every now and again, isn't it?
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There is a very old joke about a fellow who gets a call in the middle of the night from his therapist who says he must come down now. The therapist has deduced the fellow's problem. When he gets to the shrink's office the shrink tells him it is simple, he is in love with his raincoat. The patient protests, "Love? Never!! Infatuated? Maybe."
 
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