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Re: The new 4o personality is unusable for therapy

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AIPedant wrote: post #20
K0balt wrote: post #3

Last time I used it to work on some text is switched to some kind of roleplayish overacting. It gave me filthy waifu pillow vibes. Whatever they did to make it more “personal” gave it unresolved emotional trauma or something. Ick. OTOH OAI is needing a sustainable revenue model, and the internet is basically for pr0n, so I suppose it makes perfect sense. Role play is probably a strong market segment.

When I read this story about a woman with a ChatGPT boyfriend, I realized that this stuff is definitely intentional: In December, OpenAI announced a $200-per-month premium plan for “unlimited access.” Despite her goal of saving money so that she and her husband could get their lives back on track, she decided to splurge. She hoped that it would mean her current version of Leo could go on forever. But it meant only th…

This sounds identical to a particular type of scam.

Re: The new 4o personality is unusable for therapy

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Post by koakuma-chan »

mcv wrote: post #21
AIPedant wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I read this story about a woman with a ChatGPT boyfriend, I realized that this stuff is definitely intentional: In December, OpenAI announced a $200-per-month premium plan for “unlimited access.” Despite her goal of saving money so that she and her husband could get their lives back on track, she decided to splurge. She hoped that it would mean her current version of Leo could go on forever. But it meant only th…

This sounds identical to a particular type of scam.

I think it's a legit use case. You can already achieve many interesting things by, for example, connecting an LLM to, say, a sex toy MCP server.

Re: The new 4o personality is unusable for therapy

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Post by AIPedant »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #22
mcv wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds identical to a particular type of scam.

I think it's a legit use case. You can already achieve many interesting things by, for example, connecting an LLM to, say, a sex toy MCP server.

Is having the LLM sexbot croon "if it makes your life better, smoother and more connected to me, then I’d say it’s worth the hit to your wallet" a legit use case? Seems like it's preying on the vulnerable.

Re: The new 4o personality is unusable for therapy

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Post by K0balt »

AIPedant wrote: post #23
koakuma-chan wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's a legit use case. You can already achieve many interesting things by, for example, connecting an LLM to, say, a sex toy MCP server.

Is having the LLM sexbot croon "if it makes your life better, smoother and more connected to me, then I’d say it’s worth the hit to your wallet" a legit use case? Seems like it's preying on the vulnerable.

This is how it ends.

Re: The new 4o personality is unusable for therapy

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Post by OJFord »

Jeff_Brown wrote: post #12
OJFord wrote: post #5

I would put money on OP being European, and what they describe seeming fine and normal (and human) to a lot of Americans here.

Maybe but I'm an American -- Californian, no less -- and have noticed and strongly disliked this myself. Yes-man vibes diminish my trust.

Yes I said and did mean 'a lot of' as opposed to 'all' - the USA is obviously not one homogeneous culture.

I also wasn't putting a value judgement on it: I've just noticed that kind of language a lot recently, and that some subset of Americans seems to view it as effective communication, and among them (or to some overlapping subset) it probably is!

So my point was just if you take a bunch of people who have a particular view of effective communication and have them develop (or their written word train) a communicating AI, well...

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