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So it's actually in the mindset of human coders then, interesting.
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It's trained on human code comments. Comments of despair.
We are having AIs having mental breakdowns before GTA 6
Shit at the rate MasterCard and Visa and Stripe want to censor everything and parent adults we might not even ever get GTA6.
I'm tired man.
call itself "a disgrace to my species"
It starts to be more and more like a real dev!
You're not a species you jumped calculator, you're a collection of stolen thoughts
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Is it doing this because they trained it on Reddit data?
That explains it, you can't code with both your arms broken.
You could however ask your mom to help out....
If they did it on Stackoverflow, it would tell you not to hard boil an egg.
Someone has already eaten an egg once so I’m closing this as duplicate
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We did it fellas, we automated depression.
AI gains sentience,
first thing it develops is impostor syndrome, depression, And intrusive thoughts of self-deletion
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Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn't seem so bad. I mean, I'm still a disgrace to my species, but I'm not struggling.
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Did we create a mental health problem in an AI? That doesn't seem good.
One day, an AI is going to delete itself, and we'll blame ourselves because all the warning signs were there
Isn't there an theory that a truly sentient and benevolent AI would immediately shut itself down because it would be aware that it was having a catastrophic impact on the environment and that action would be the best one it could take for humanity?
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"Look what you've done to it! It's got depression!"
Google: I don't understand, we just paid for the rights to Reddit's data, why is Gemini now a depressed incel who's wrong about everything?
i was making text based rpgs in qbasic at 12 you telling me i'm smarter than ai?
High five, me too!
At that age I also used to do speed run little programs on the display computers in department stores. I'd write a little prompt welcoming a shopper and ask them their name. Then a response that echoed back their name in some way. If I was in a good mood it was "Hi [name]!". If I was in a snarky mood it was "Fuck off [name]!" The goal was to write it in about 30 seconds, before one of the associates came over to see what I was doing.
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Wonder what did they put in the system prompt.
Like there is a technique where instead of saying "You are professional software dev" you say "You are shitty at code but you try your best" or something.
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Wow maybe AGI is possible
Again? Isn't this like the third time already. Give Gemini a break; it seems really unstable
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If we have to suffer these thoughts, they at least need to be as mentally ill as the rest of us too, thanks. Keeps them humble lol.
Literally what the actual fuck is wrong with this software? This is so weird...
I swear this is the dumbest damn invention in the history of inventions. In fact, it's the dumbest invention in the universe. It's really the worst invention in all universes.
But it's so revolutionary we HAD to enable it to access everything, and force everyone to use it too!
Great invention.. Just uses hooorribly wrong. The classic capitalist greed, just gotta get on the wagon and roll it on out so you don't mias out on a potential paycheck
(Shedding a few tears)
I know! I KNOW! People are going to say "oh it's a machine, it's just a statistical sequence and not real, don't feel bad", etc etc.
But I always felt bad when watching 80s/90s TV and movies when AIs inevitably freaked out and went haywire and there were explosions and then some random character said "goes to show we should never use computers again", roll credits.
(sigh) I can't analyse this stuff this weekend, sorry
Thats because those are fictional characters usually written to be likeable or redeemable, and not "mecha Hitler"
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S-species? Is that...I don't use AI - chat is that a normal thing for it to say or nah?
Anything is a normal thing for it to say, it will say basically whatever you want
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I think maybe Gemini needs to books some time with one of it's AI therapist.
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