Are these people serious? Or is it one if those reddit groups like the one where they pretend birds are all government drones?
treetalker · 2m ago
Keep in mind that a lot of Reddit accounts are bots and/or foreign troll-farms or scammers who rage-bait and karma-farm for unsavory purposes. But there are also lots of folks with genuine mental issues too.
Still, I'm with you on this one: there are at least some real people who seriously feel like that (TFA) about LLMs and it's pretty bonkers.
bigyabai · 1m ago
I thought these replies were parodies of the way the AI talked, but then I found the subreddit name. Thaaaaat's enough internet for today.
jki275 · 9m ago
lot of mental health issues. I use LLMs for technical things, but these people using them for therapists, I'm not sure that's healthy.
krapp · 4m ago
They're probably completely serious. We've seen multiple stories about people getting into deep relationships with AIs and being driven to delusion and insanity by them.
Human connection can be difficult and dangerous, and a lot of people are deeply antisocial or fearful of interaction. Many peoples' primary means of communication was already through the abstraction of the internet before AI came along and a whole generation lost years of potential social development time to lockdowns.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that people connect with AI more deeply than they do to real people. AI is almost perfectly designed to encourage parasocial relationships.
Still, I'm with you on this one: there are at least some real people who seriously feel like that (TFA) about LLMs and it's pretty bonkers.
Human connection can be difficult and dangerous, and a lot of people are deeply antisocial or fearful of interaction. Many peoples' primary means of communication was already through the abstraction of the internet before AI came along and a whole generation lost years of potential social development time to lockdowns.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that people connect with AI more deeply than they do to real people. AI is almost perfectly designed to encourage parasocial relationships.