That’s actually crazy. As in… the last time people were physically restricted from leaving their homes?

How is that even possible.

this is just an LLM getting stuck in the data patterns stolen from toxic self-help literature.

Honestly, I’ve found that discussing that sort of thing with ChatGPT often ends up challenging all the self-help grout I’ve ingested via cultural osmosis throughout the years.

It’s easier to make connections when you’re approaching issues in a Descartes “dump out all the apples” approach with a tool that literally doesn’t have embedded social contracts in itself.

Ironically, I’ve found at times that a real therapist can be much more of an echo chamber when they’re just regurgitating that same CBT toxic positivity swill that both of you have been drinking lol

Maybe it’s because it’s less of an authority, so you can debate more and it leads to more well-rounded conclusions in the end, but I’ve been unearthing bits and pieces of maladaptive behaviors and thought patterns I never even realized I had, much less ever scratched the surface of in proper therapy. Made me kinda angry to realize at first lol, it felt like all that time and money only for bandaid solutions. But I try to reason that was likely a good foundation to have first (even if CBT just wound up making everything worse later on in life and I essentially had to work backwards to stop classifying certain emotions as wrong or problematic things which required “healthy” coping mechanisms to correct).

I don’t know if LLMs are getting people who couldn’t have been gotten by human scammers

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Now you’re thinking with portals!

Yeah okay this logic definitely checks out with this context in mind lol

I dabble in using LLMs for pretty much anything these sensationalist stories ever talk about, I use them to research niche topics I can’t discuss with other people and even as a small aid to mental health while stuck on waiting lists inbetween therapy, yet I’ve never had those sorts of struggles.

I’m just now beginning to connect that to my ability to read a seemingly well-formed idea or recommendation by an AI, and react with

Ah, that’s a fascinating possible factor. That’s also basically the one thing I never use LLMs for lol

If you’re not even making your own decisions, then what’s the point? Isn’t life deterministic enough as it is lmao

Some people say “I don’t need human interaction, I enjoy my time alone!” But that’s because they have the privilege of enough social acceptance and integration that they get to enjoy their time alone.

Oh shit, I was about to contest this logic but no you’re absolutely right.

I’m definitely one of those people, but I also have never gone seeking validation online and missed the bus for a lot of those social media trends (outside of the ones that friends at the time ended up bullying me into using, which I would briefly check out then quickly bail on).

Maybe it is more an issue of identity and self-image, as I’ve never once felt emotionally “connected” to ChatGPT or any of these clunky LLMs people seem to swear by. I do admit that sometimes talking out a problem instead of marinating on it on your own can be useful… but I view it almost as an extension of journaling than anything else. There’s always a clear line for me where it’s like “Okay, I got what I needed out of this interaction and now it’s clearly suggesting additional prompts I don’t need to try and keep me engaging with it”…

It’s crazy to me that other people don’t seem to register that line at all lol, it seems so clearly artificial to me.

I think what we’re seeing is similar to lactose intolerance

For real. Good to know I can handle both my cheese and shitty LLM bots without bodily consequences lmao

This explains a lot, honestly.

Everyone keeps telling me how “addictive” and “convincing” and “personal feeling” ChatGPT is.

Meanwhile, I’m over here like

“Can you stop saying skrrrt after every sentence while I’m trying to research a serious topic, it’s annoying”

“Understood, skrrrt 💥🌴🚗💨”

This right here. Before that it was AirBnb, social media, smartphones… the list goes on.

“Every time you’re talking, the model gets fine-tuned. It knows exactly what you like and what you want to hear. It praises you a lot.”

See, I never understood this. Mine could never even follow simple instructions lol

Like I say “Give me a list of types of X, but exclude Y”

"Understood!

#1 - Y

(I know you said to exclude this one but it’s a popular option among-)"

lmfaoooo

Noooooooooooo

Quickly! Everyone start massposting shit about Hegel, Kierkegaard, and sharing 3-hour breadtube essays about leftism to drive off the impending brainrot lol

“We can’t let the terrorists win!!”

You’d really hand over your government ID to Spez? Lmao

Same. I admit I circled back recently purely for the hype of Hazbin Season 2.

Fortunately, this season was shit so I didn’t spend long on there this time lol

Damn, that’s crazy. Even 200 years after slavery was abolished, the US officially still doesn’t think it’s wrong. Just that it “lost the case”.

Inb4 Roe v. Wae overturning, but for the Emancipation Proclamation. Backwards ass country lol

I remember Europe saying the same thing around the 1930s lol

When was the last time you talked to a boomer?

Anyone a year older than a zoomer to them is a boomer lmfao

That’s the spirit!

Meanwhile everyone keeps donating to Youtube Premium and then complaining about it lol

Honestly debatable. I’ve seen more and more good channels depart or stop posting, or others gradually turn into “react” content channels that only discuss tiktok drama or politics. Even so-called Breadtube for smaller channels has become synonymous with that embedded stereotype.

I compared a screenshot I took of my subscriptions feed from a year ago to now and was startled by the amount of change in incendiary content. It’s like the definition of doomscrolling.

I used to spend over 4 hours a day on youtube just watching video essays and skit comedy, but now I split most of that time across writing, itch.io, and catching up on anime. I have so much more free time I finally decided to start One Piece lmao (might try finishing Bleach too)