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"Social skills practice with AI" is another word for brainwashing, basically. Brainwashing often rotates around ethics, specifically ethics as depicted by social models ("influencers"). And it uses social anxiety as a primary lever (e.g. "assertiveness training" courses, women's deodorant ads). AI "social skills" practice would brainwash susceptible people into mimicking the behavior patterns desired by the creators…
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You can just not use it.
No, not if you want to participate in certain aspects of society. For example: getting a job, which is pretty crucial, IMO.
As a reddit mod of a tiny community I've very recently started to suggest users use ChatGPT to re-word their comments and submissions when their phrasing is inflammatory. Any point worth making is worth making well. It is still early stages, so I'm not sure how effective it will be. I've noticed that ChatGPT can do a decent job rewording an angry message to be less toxic while drawing out the salient points. The outp…
> However, practice environments for social skills are typically out of reach for most people. I learned my social skills in school, interacting with my peers in my neighborhood, and from my family. I understand this is not available to everyone, but anyone with access the LLMs there is a high likelihood they also (should?) have access to schooling, some neighbors, and family. To what culture this LLM was trained to?
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A comparison to video games shows how hard it is to truly practice social skills. You can't play the same situation over and over, which is why it's easier to get better at small talk than confrontation. People don't want to reveal how they manipulate you, so schools can't teach about head tilting and brinksmanship. You have few trustworthy external evaluators, so you can come away from a conversation where you talke…
I think most people who cannot learn most of these skills between the ages of 12-21 (when it's perfectly socially acceptable to fuck up to varying degrees, since literally everyone is learning), are probably neurodivergent. In which case they need to get a diagnosis, that will hopefully open them up to coaching by a human being. Perhaps something like this tech could be supplementary for some extreme cases there. Any…