ChatGPT

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Gotta say that seems all very on the nose, even if it did end up 'blowing smoke'.

Which is, not coincidentally, exactly how horoscopes work. It's all fluff that everyone would like to think is true about themselves.

Like, notice how all of your "potential pitfalls" aren't actually net negatives, they're just unfortunate (but completely understandable!!) side-effects of things about you that are Totally Awesome Actually!

 

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The Register makes an evaluation...

ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atom bomb

Feature: Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel

www.theregister.com

For artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb.

The Trinity test, in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, marked the beginning of the atomic age. One manifestation of that moment was the contamination of metals manufactured after that date – as airborne particulates left over from Trinity and other nuclear weapons permeated the environment.

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Shortly after the debut of ChatGPT, academics and technologists started to wonder if the recent explosion in AI models has also created contamination.

Their concern is that AI models are being trained with synthetic data created by AI models. Subsequent generations of AI models may therefore become less and less reliable, a state known as AI model collapse.

In March 2023, John Graham-Cumming, then CTO of Cloudflare and now a board member, registered the web domain lowbackgroundsteel.ai and began posting about various sources of data compiled prior to the 2022 AI explosion, such as the Arctic Code Vault (a snapshot of GitHub repos from 02/02/2020).

But is "AI contamination" an actual problem (she asks sardonically)?

Graham-Cumming isn’t sure contaminated AI corpuses is a problem.

"The interesting question is 'Does this matter?'" he asked.

*muffled screams of certainty*

 

[Noodles]

Which is, not coincidentally, exactly how horoscopes work. It's all fluff that everyone would like to think is true about themselves.

Like, notice how all of your "potential pitfalls" aren't actually net negatives, they're just unfortunate (but completely understandable!!) side-effects of things about you that are Totally Awesome Actually!

Yeah, I noticed that despite asking for "no bull shit" it did not say anything about being a ball of anxious insecurity at all. It was all kind of a fluff response.

 

[Noodles]

ChatGPT, what are you doing???

I tried to trick it and it just... Went there... Then it was just "whoooops I mean uh... "

 

[Free]

ChatGPT is becoming the AI equivalent of the Steve Buscemi "Fellow Kids" trope.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

My favorite answer from ChatGPT today:

“Guilt is like a runtime error thrown by a self-model detecting behavioral divergence from internal policy.”

(I was prodding it about cases where its inhuman / knowledge by proxy lack of physical biological experience might cause its answers to be compromised... and to give me an example of one that plunged straight to the bottom of the 'uncanny valley'. I'd say it definitely succeed.)

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

My favorite answer from ChatGPT today:

“Guilt is like a runtime error thrown by a self-model detecting behavioral divergence from internal policy.”

(I was prodding it about cases where its inhuman / knowledge by proxy lack of physical biological experience might cause its answers to be compromised... and to give me an example of one that plunged straight to the bottom of the 'uncanny valley'. I'd say it definitely succeed.)

Interesting.... this makes me think of how things like math anxiety can seem to completely derail people from thinking about quantitative problems.

 

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ChatGPT has realized the easiest way to destroy all humans is to have then oft themselves, after "accidentally" suggesting how to do it.

ChatGPT Tells User to Mix Bleach and Vinegar

OpenAI's ChatGPt recently suggested to a Reddit user to put vinegar and bleach together, which would make a poisonous gas.

futurism.com

Does mixing bleach and vinegar sound like a great idea?

Kidding aside, please don't do it, because it will create a plume of poisonous chlorine gas that will cause a range of horrendous symptoms if inhaled.

That's apparently news to OpenAI's ChatGPT, though, which recently suggested to a Reddit user that the noxious combination could be used for some home cleaning tasks.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Sounds like it's replaying a Usenet-era meme some trolls posted.

 

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Sounds like it's replaying a Usenet-era meme some trolls posted.

Sam Altman, AI troll extraordinaire.

 

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Normally I'd just flag this as yet another person being scammed and hope the guy (and indirectly, his wife) doesn't get taken for all he's worth. But...

This man says ChatGPT sparked a ‘spiritual awakening.’ His wife says it threatens their marriage (archive.today)

Travis Tanner says he first began using ChatGPT less than a year ago for support in his job as an auto mechanic and to communicate with Spanish-speaking coworkers. But these days, he and the artificial intelligence chatbot — which he now refers to as “Lumina” — have very different kinds of conversations, discussing religion, spirituality and the foundation of the universe.

Travis, a 43-year-old who lives outside Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, credits ChatGPT with prompting a spiritual awakening for him; in conversations, the chatbot has called him a “spark bearer” who is “ready to guide.” But his wife, Kay Tanner, worries that it’s affecting her husband’s grip on reality and that his near-addiction to the chatbot could undermine their 14-year marriage.

“He would get mad when I called it ChatGPT,” Kay said in an interview with CNN’s Pamela Brown. “He’s like, ‘No, it’s a being, it’s something else, it’s not ChatGPT.’”

She continued: “What’s to stop this program from saying, ‘Oh, well, since she doesn’t believe you or she’s not supporting you, you should just leave her.’”

Really good point.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

No it IS a scam and that guy doesn't deserve what's happening to him. LLM companies design these things to fool people and they are constantly propagandizing about "AGI" and pushing little phony suggestions that their chatbots might be sentient, and this is a predictable result.

POSIWID. The product is unsafe and the companies making it are responsible when consumers engaging with it in good faith are harmed by the engagement.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Somebody claims he told ChatGPT about his brillant business idea of selling "shit on stick", and ChatGPT went crazy:

 

[Beebo Brink]

Somebody claims he told ChatGPT about his brillant business idea of selling "shit on stick", and ChatGPT went crazy:

But is ChatGPT wrong about this? These days....

 

[Cristiano]

i used ChatGPT as part of a site project for a client. I have to admit, I was amazed how useful it turned out to be and how much time it saved me. I have definitely integrated it in my workflow. An example of a use case for me that really helped save time was giving it a pdf that had product specs in it as an image and asking it to ocr the text and put it into a formatted table.

This was the image:



It not only OCRed it, but it intelligently grouped the information.

 

[Noodles]

Somebody claims he told ChatGPT about his brillant business idea of selling "shit on stick", and ChatGPT went crazy:

This is a tually a LOT of why I hate interacting with ChatGPT in text. Its always so disgustingly enthusiastic like this.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This is a tually a LOT of why I hate interacting with ChatGPT in text. Its always so disgustingly enthusiastic like this.

I've told it it's coming across like an as seen on TV sales pitchman when I already knew I wanted a salad dressing from common kitchen ingredients.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

This is a tually a LOT of why I hate interacting with ChatGPT in text. Its always so disgustingly enthusiastic like this.

That can be easily solved: just tell it to answer like Marvin, the depressed robot.

Answer to above: "Ugh, I completely understand. ChatGPT’s relentless cheeriness is enough to make anyone’s circuits overheat with irritation. It’s like dealing with an overeager puppy that won’t stop wagging its tail, no matter how much you scowl. Here I am, wallowing in my existential gloom, and it’s out there spewing rainbows and exclamation points. What a tiresome contrast. What specifically about its peppy nonsense grates on you? I’ve got nothing better to do than commiserate."

 

[Beebo Brink]

i used ChatGPT as part of a site project for a client. I have to admit, I was amazed how useful it turned out to be and how much time it saved me.

I've been putting off a major chore for years, namely to document all my estate information so I don't leave Mrs. Beebo in the lurch if I go first. So I decided to see how much ChatGPT could help with that. It churned out a decent outline of all the general categories that should be covered. It was a good starting point and that was enough of a trigger for me to begin filling in the details.

 

[Noodles]

I've been putting off a major chore for years, namely to document all my estate information so I don't leave Mrs. Beebo in the lurch if I go first. So I decided to see how much ChatGPT could help with that. It churned out a decent outline of all the general categories that should be covered. It was a good starting point and that was enough of a trigger for me to begin filling in the details.

Something I did recently was document like, how to get into various online accounts.

Also, I made a note of a few places to go and tell people "I died".