‘They don’t really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT’: OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks young people turning to chatbots for life advice is ‘cool’
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Remember that movie Her, about a guy who developed an unhealthy relationship with an AI? Apparently it’s happening in real life now, and Sam Altman counts it among the “cool” uses for ChatGPT.
At the Sequoia Capital AI Ascent conference earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman answered a slew of questions about ChatGPT, including a few that homed in on some of the seriously concerning trends around the way people are using AI chatbots.
From the sound of Altman’s comments during the Q&A, the AI tech bros have apparently become so disconnected that they don’t see over-reliance on chatbots as an issue.
There goes Sam again, drinking his own bathwater. This guy is such a joke.
He sounds as nuts as Zuckerberg who thinks people want some AI “friends” lol
To everyone who still uses chatgpt, there are alternatives, especially of you are concerned about privacy, join r/localllama
Local models are getting better, faster and easier to run every month.
I think this is good. As long as chatbots are not compromised by some kind of social engineering agenda, it’s a good think for people to engage thoughtfully with something they are grappling with, rather than acting from impulse. Specially for younger people to be able to access wisdom that their life experiences have not given them yet, it’s a great thing.
In an anime called “Ghost In The Shell” by Masamune Shirow, society is partly cybernetic, most people being augmented by a “cyberbrain”.
These cyberbrains were getting hacked by an AI called “The Puppetmaster”, also known as “Project 2501”.
In the original manga series, smartphones weren’t a thing. Possibly because they were less apparent back then.
If you stretch their concept of mental augmentation instead to be our current ‘external mind’ of smartphone & data identity…
Then, the use of AI as it now stands could easily encompass something like “The Puppetmaster” — right now.
I’m not sure if he realizes how horrifying that sounds to normal people. Or how absolutely dystopian hellscape that sounds to people working in software.
Drug dealer thinks young people turning to heroin to cope with life advice is ‘cool’
a lot of luddites in here for a sub called “futurology”
I don’t think this is so much different that what has been already going on in social media sites. Just another tool for proving yourself that you are on the “correct” path, be it via the likes you get on Instagram or ChatGPT agreeing with you. It works until it doesn’t. Worse part is that there is no human element at all. You have a chatbot that is by definition mimicking your patterns. It could have seriously destructive outcomes for people with select personality traits.
I saw a video of Sergey Brin (Google co-founder) say he used ai as a way to evaluate workers to see who would get a promotion.
I don’t understand how anyone can look at that man’s face and trust him.
Every muscle you don’t use atrophies and eventually dies. Please exercise your own mental faculties whenever possible, don’t just fall into the trap of outsourced comfort.
Don’t let Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg do the thinking for you.
*Internet outage occurs*
Everyone: what do I do!? ChatGPT! Help me! How do I boil water again!? Can I just use toilet water! ChatGPT! Help!
CEO of big tobacco company thinks the increase of cigarette consumption by young people is a good thing. “Smoking will be cool again!”
You could change chatgpt to google and the answer would still be the same. Great idea for a critical mind. Ask it broad strokes and do the deep dive yourself.
This just in! Oil company believes it is ‘cool’ for young people to drink over a gallon of crude oil in their free time! CEO says ‘It has a nice kick to it, really goes well with a burger’
If the board wasn’t made up of “ex CIA” this might be cool now it’s really scary
My high-school going son is ‘addicted’ to ChatGpt while doing his homeowrk. So much so that ChatGpt not Googling is a verb for his peers.
Is it just the parent in me being worried about his brain turning to mush?
All it takes is for ChatGPT to have a bias – and that’s just VERY possible to implant – to influence the population that heavily relies on ChatGPT right now. While that’s not literal mind control, that sort of subtle influence is potentially worse, because those kind of things are very hard to notice.
Remember how ChatGPT was just “Glazing” (A word I quote from the articles) its userbase by being way too affirmative earlier? Yeah, that’s part of those mind control techniques, to get those who are listening to you to trust you, potentially blindly.
… I sound like a conspiracy nut, don’t I? But there are plenty of LLMs that have ways to adjust temperature and other prompts. I can totally imagine a browser virus that injects stuff into your ChatGPT prompts or whatever, too. There are just so many potential ways for population control that I can think of, if I have access to the master control for ChatGPT.
“Hey AI what do you think happens to human consciousness when we’re no longer alive?”
“I am afraid I cannot answer such an open-ended question. However, you could try and find out yourself.”
“What does that mean, AI?”
“…”
“WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!?”