I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:
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I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:
Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say.
This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity.
Thought it was worth sharing. And frankly, it's exactly such an exercise that made me disgusted with the tech. "It just says ANYTHING is wonderful and genius. I'm not special."
@futurebird Knowing me I'd just develop multiple psychosis to become the Angel of Cognitive Dissonance and thus fulfill the prophesy I was once told by some cards.
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Frankly, I'm kind of glad these GPTs were so sycophantic. A more critical voice might have been more appealing to me. A contrarian bot who always nitpicks and argues with you.
That's how facebook's old 2016 algorithm wasted so much of my time. I sucked in by the opportunity to dismantle someone who is wrong. Not the most ... healthy personal quality. I'm working on it always.
@futurebird "A contrarian bot who always nitpicks and argues with you. "
See? This is part of the whole problem!
You should be using us humans for this. As a developer AND a contrarian I get a double strike.
Next thing you know people will turn to bots to get their mansplaining.
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Another "tip" is less welcome to me as an introvert. Make time for the people in your life. Talk to them. Let them know when you *really* think they are doing something amazing or creative. (Or when it's not "genius" because you are real and care.) Listen. Be there.
The thing is, as much as doing this is scary and I want to avoid it it makes me feel better too in the long run I think.
@futurebird Yeah, why spend what little social reserves we have on fake interaction
We can strive for better interaction with the other humans and animals in our lives
We still need downtime to recharge. Intrusive fake digital interaction interferes with the recharge process
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Yup. I don't like to admit how well that worked on me.
Show me someone causally but confidently wrong with pretensions being an intellectual and I'm so excited to get in the ring and start proving them wrong.
Facebook could find such posts extremely efficiently. These were posts from real people I didn't know (who weren't even talking to me.) They would be served up on my dashboard because I'd type a response.
Now it might not even be a person.
There was a point many years ago, probably about the same time, where I started really getting sick of all the stupid misinformation people were spreading on Facebook, so I started "truth trolling".
Facebook algo: "oh, you like misinformation and conspiracies? Well here you go!" Anyway, suffice to say that my debunking efforts were not widely appreciated. That's when I gave up and largely ditched the platform. But, yeah, it sure was effective at keeping me engaged.
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@flamecat @futurebird We've been told we burden others with our lives so we now default to "not troubling anyone" when actually that's what makes us human
we’ve been sold that lie by the same kind of predators selling AI.
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There’s an old Andre Previn joke where a comedian is playing the piano badly in his orchestra. He accuses the comedian of playing all the wrong notes. The comedian replies. That he is playing all the right notes. But in the wrong order.
That sums up AI for me. We have no way of knowing whether it has organised the facts into the right order.
@DziadekMick @futurebird we have no way of knowing if what it has assembled were facts to begin with.
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I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:
Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say.
This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity.
Thought it was worth sharing. And frankly, it's exactly such an exercise that made me disgusted with the tech. "It just says ANYTHING is wonderful and genius. I'm not special."
This is a deep insight, a corrective tip.
Brilliant, hat tipped.
Two windows, cause it's a pandering dummy.
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I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:
Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say.
This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity.
Thought it was worth sharing. And frankly, it's exactly such an exercise that made me disgusted with the tech. "It just says ANYTHING is wonderful and genius. I'm not special."
Perfect merger of staring into the Abyss and Narcissus drowning in his own reflection.
A Black Mirror.
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Frankly, I'm kind of glad these GPTs were so sycophantic. A more critical voice might have been more appealing to me. A contrarian bot who always nitpicks and argues with you.
That's how facebook's old 2016 algorithm wasted so much of my time. I sucked in by the opportunity to dismantle someone who is wrong. Not the most ... healthy personal quality. I'm working on it always.
@futurebird existential comics made an AI Socrates that takes a much more contratian tone fyi https://www.existentialcomics.com/comic/629
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There’s an old Andre Previn joke where a comedian is playing the piano badly in his orchestra. He accuses the comedian of playing all the wrong notes. The comedian replies. That he is playing all the right notes. But in the wrong order.
That sums up AI for me. We have no way of knowing whether it has organised the facts into the right order.
@DziadekMick @Flisty @futurebird that’s Eric Morecombe in Morecombe and Wise playing the piano.
