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Re: What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

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Post by np- » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC

ArcHound wrote: post #415

ragequittah wrote: post #323

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Would it be better if someone were to gamify the needs like video game romance? Seems easy enough to do. Curious does the ultra popular romance book genre many women use to feel things they aren't getting from men around them bother you?

Lol, in this comment chain, I, personally, shall judge all of the quality of human connection based on vibes. Gamifying the needs depends on the intent. If you care about people wellbeing it's a force for good, if you seek to manipulate the people using advanced mechanisms it's evil. Ultra popular romance book to balance needs of a woman is okay if the book was written by a human, and even that only as long as there…

What about men, are they allowed to play single player video games with bots in it when they have an option to play with humans? ...or are we only judging women in here?

Re: What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

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Post by mrguyorama » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 6:50 PM UTC

survirtual wrote: post #319

Refreeze5224 wrote: post #232

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This is sexist pseudo-scientific hogwash, and should have no place here.

Agreed, but this is also a male-dominated space with a lot of men with relationship issues, so objectivity goes out the window when it comes to women here. I enjoy all the technical discourse here but the views on women are alarming to say the least.

>I enjoy all the technical discourse here but the views on women are alarming to say the least.

You are gell-mann amnesia'ing. The takes on technology or anything else are just as buttfuck stupid and off.

The other day HN was full of people insisting that there would be some "unforseen downside" of dropping the penny and making stores round purchase amounts to the nickle.

Meanwhile, the first cash registers were only able to operate on 5 cent increments because in the early 1900s pennies were "inconvenient"!

Similarly, it's extremely common for people here to insist that "sales tax in the US is complicated" but it just isn't. The entry level cash register from the 90s supports "US, Canada, and VAT" tax schemes and supports 4 custom tax regimes and that is treated as fully expected functionality and was the norm in earlier systems as well.

Re: What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

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Post by kgwxd » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 6:51 PM UTC

ArcHound wrote: post #3

One of the more disturbing things I read this year was the my boyfriend is AI subreddit. I genuinely can't fathom what is going on there. Seems so wrong, yet no one there seems to care. I worry about the damage caused by these things on distressed people. What can be done?

Are you sure the posts there are even from people?

Re: What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

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Post by chmod775 » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 6:52 PM UTC

nemomarx wrote: post #447

Sol- wrote: post #446

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Is this a satirical comment in the sense that it reads so AI generated?

I'm beginning to worry people who chat with ais long enough will imitate their writing style

Most people do not know how to input an em-dash. It's inconvenient anyways unless you map it to something more comfortable.

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Post by m463 » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 6:59 PM UTC

bondolo wrote: post #452

I had a conversation the other day at a birthday party with my friend's neighbour from the building. The fellow is a semi-retired (FIRE) single guy. We started with a basic conversation but then he started talking about what he interested in and it became almost unintelligible. I kept having to ask him to explain what he was talking about but was increasingly unsuccessful as he continued. Sure enough though, he descr…

wondering what FIRE was: Financial Independence, Retire Early

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Post by pixl97 » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 7:13 PM UTC

mrguyorama wrote: post #472

pixl97 wrote: post #419

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>instead of real treatment As yes, because America is well known for actually providing that at a reasonable price and availability...

Then we should fix that , instead of dumping 3 trillion dollars on grifters and some of the worst human beings we have produced.

We should fix 100 things first... we won't. Capitalism is king and we'll stack the bodies high on his throne first.

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Post by bakugo » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 7:28 PM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #416

bakugo wrote: post #386

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Maybe lower their standards to the point that they can be satisfied by a real person, not a text completion algorithm that literally worships the ground they walk on and outputs some of the cheesiest, cringiest text I've ever read.

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Post by JohnMakin » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 7:35 PM UTC

joshtbradley wrote: post #240

It surprises me how hyper focused people are on AI risk when we’ve grown numb to the millions of preventable deaths that happen every year. 8 million people to smoking. 4 million to obesity. 2.6 million to alcohol. 2.5 million to healthcare. 1.2 million to cars. Hell even coconuts kill 150 people per year. It is tragic that people have lost their mind or their life to AI, and it should be prevented. But those using t…

You can focus on multiple problems at once, you know. It isn't a zero sum game.

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Post by Forgeties79 » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 7:40 PM UTC

pixl97 wrote: post #459

Forgeties79 wrote: post #389

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To emphasize your point: there are literally multiple online communities of people dating and marrying corporate controlled LLM’s. This is getting out of hand. We have to deal with it.

"Married to Microsoft" [shudders]

For real though right? A bunch of nerds at openAI, Microsoft, etc. make it so a computer can approximate a person who is bordering on the sociopathic with its groveling and affirmations of the user’s brilliance, then people fall in love with it. It’s really unsettling!

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Post by habinero » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 7:45 PM UTC

codedokode wrote: post #421

bakugo wrote: post #316

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In real dating apps, the ratio is never 1:1, there's always way more men. The "problem" will arise anyway, of course, but as I said, it's a different problem - the women aren't struggling to find dates, they're just choosing not to date the men they find. Even classifying it as a "problem" is arguable.

> the ratio is never 1:1, there's always way more men. Isn't it weird? There should be approximately equal number of not married men and women, so there should be some reason why there are less women on dating platforms. Is it because women work more and have less free time? Or because men are so bad? Or because they have an AI boyfriend? Or married men using dating apps shift the ratio?

Obviously men are people and therefore can vary, but a lot of them rely on women to be their sole source of emotional connection. Women tend to have more and closer friends and just aren't as lonely or desperate.

A lot of dudes are pretty awful to women in general, and dating apps are full of that sort. Add in the risks of meeting strange men, and it's not hard to see why a lot of women go "eh" and hang out with friends instead.