• Shanmugha@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Redditor as “a person active on Reddit”? I don’t see where I was talking about humans. Or am I misunderstanding the question?

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        44 minutes ago

        This dumbass is convinced that humans are chatbots likely because chatbots are his only friends.

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          31 minutes ago

          Sounds scary. I read a story the other day about a dude who really got himself a discord server with chatbots, and that was his main place of “communicating” and “socializing”

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            16 minutes ago

            This anecdote has the makings of a “men will literally x instead of going to therapy” joke.

            On a more serious note though, I really wish people would stop anthropomorphisizing these things, especially when they do it while dehumanizing and devaluing humanity as a whole.

            But that’s unlikely to happen. It’s the same type of people that thought the mind was a machine in the first industrial revolution, and then a CPU in the third…now they think it’s an LLM.

            LLMs could have some better (if narrower) applications if we could stop being so stupid as to inject them into places where they are obviously counterproductive.