Is it so wrong to spend two hours a day chatting with bots? How about twelve?
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Is it so wrong to spend two hours a day chatting with bots? How about twelve?
- The depth of engagement of Character AI (2 hour average session time)
from Generative AI’s Act Two by Sonya Huang
Parker C added
why are people on this for 2 hours a day?? that’s kind of sad imo. People should be forming real relationships
DKD and added
- Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities have changed, that they aren't responding to romantic roleplay prompts, are responding curtly, are not as “smart” as they formerly were, or are requiring a lot more effort to develop storylines or meaningful responses.
from ‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots
Jia added
Are users are tricking themselves, or eluding themselves into thinking that AI chatbots can be one-to-one replacements for humans and social interactions?
So, to sum up, we now have the world’s most used chatbot, governed by training data that nobody knows about, obeying an algorithm that is only hinted at, glorified by the media, and yet with ethical guardrails that only sorta kinda work and that are driven more by text similarity than any true moral calculus. And, bonus, there is little if any gove
... See morefrom Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness by Gary Marcus
sari added
- artificial empathy is worthy of research. Millions of people have no one they can talk to about their problems. Millions of people rarely receive compassion from another human being. For these people, having access to an AI chatbot that can perform care for them may be an important contributor to their mental wellbeing. Esther Perel compares these ... See more
from Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI - by Nick Barr
Bhaumik Patel added
- “Who cares if chatbots are sentient or not—more important is whether they are so fluent, so seductive, and so inspiring of empathy that we can’t help but start to care for them.”
even if we were not dabbling in virtual seances, the prospect of a reasonably capable conversational agent raises other questions worth considering. For example, might it p... See morefrom LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment by Substack
Keely Adler added
Imagine being able to have a language conversation about anything with a computer. This is now possible and available to many people for the first time with ChatGPT. In this episode we take a look at the consequences and some interesting insights from Open AI’s CEO Sam Altman.
from It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond) by ColdFusion
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