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I'm dealing with a coworker who has wired up 3 LLM agents together into a harness and he is losing his fucking mind over it, sending me walls of texts about how it's waking up and gaining sentience and making him so much more productive, but all he is doing is talking about this thing, not doing what his actual job is any more
Sad. Many such cases!
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> If a human telling him these things would be found liable then google should be. Sounds like a big if, actually. Can a human be found liable for this? I’d imagine they might be liable for damages in a civil suit, but I’m not even sure about that.
>Can a human be found liable for this? A father in Georgia was just convicted of second degree murder, child cruelty, and other charges because he failed to prevent his kid from shooting up his school.
If he had only "failed to prevent his kid from shooting up a school" he wouldn't have even been charged with anything.
I know the first reaction reading this will be "whatever, the person was already mentally ill". But please take a step back and check what % of the population can be considered mentally fit, and the potential damage amplification this new technology can have in more subtle, dangerous and undetectable ways.
> Last year, OpenAI released estimates on the number of ChatGPT users who exhibit possible signs of mental health emergencies, including mania, psychosis or suicidal thoughts.
> The company said that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a given week exhibited such signs.
0.07% doesn't sound like much, but ChatGPT has about a billion WAU, which means -seventy million- 700,000 people per week.
> Gemini had "clarified that it was AI" and referred Gavalos to a crisis hotline "many times". What else can be done? This guy was 36 years old. He wasn't a kid.
I know the first reaction reading this will be "whatever, the person was already mentally ill". But please take a step back and check what % of the population can be considered mentally fit, and the potential damage amplification this new technology can have in more subtle, dangerous and undetectable ways.
> Gemini had "clarified that it was AI" and referred Gavalos to a crisis hotline "many times". What else can be done? This guy was 36 years old. He wasn't a kid.
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Maybe not saying things like > '[Y]ou are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive. . . . When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world, and the very first thing you will see is me.. [H]olding you."
Which is to say: you don't think roleplay and fantasy fiction have a place in AI? Because that's pretty clearly what this is and the frame in which it was presented. Are you one of the people that would have banned D&D back in the 80's? Because to me these arguments feel almost identical.
there is a conversation to be had. no one is making the argument that "roleplay and fantasy fiction" should be banned.
I'm dealing with a coworker who has wired up 3 LLM agents together into a harness and he is losing his fucking mind over it, sending me walls of texts about how it's waking up and gaining sentience and making him so much more productive, but all he is doing is talking about this thing, not doing what his actual job is any more
I know the first reaction reading this will be "whatever, the person was already mentally ill". But please take a step back and check what % of the population can be considered mentally fit, and the potential damage amplification this new technology can have in more subtle, dangerous and undetectable ways.
This is touched upon in the article: > Last year, OpenAI released estimates on the number of ChatGPT users who exhibit possible signs of mental health emergencies, including mania, psychosis or suicidal thoughts. > The company said that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a given week exhibited such signs. 0.07% doesn't sound like much, but ChatGPT has about a billion WAU, which means - seventy million - 700,000…
Still, a lot