If you expect people to take you seriously, you should do the same to people who took the time to respond.

@eljojo >> what do you mean when you say AI “listens” to conversations, is that different than your smartphone “listening” for you to say “hey google”? do you turn your phone off during therapy?

You blocked him without answering this very important question.

I am ant-AI, and I have the same question and would love your thought on this.

even “agents” or “skills” (another human term) - no: they are order-takers. they are given instructions to perform a task when triggered by a certain event, events that are defined by a human.

one more I forgot: when people say “(people say) I’ll be left behind if I don’t start using these tools”

response: consider that much of the evidence shows that using these tools is actually _deskilling_ people, making them less effective at their jobs.

The one who you are trying to save has all the expertise needed. Not you. You just guide them to understand that what they pointed out as "almost ok" is-a disinformation, is a lie. One that their own brain can correct and complete, but not brain of someone who does not have a field knowledge.

That said, people with no education and no hobbies likely already are lost to the #aislop.

@ShaulaEvans

I think the main take-away though is basically share concerns but don't shame which it sounds like is already your plan

They are also, for other reasons I won't specify, probably at a higher than average risk of AI psychosis.

But it's someone who cares about me and respects me, so I have some ground to stand on in the conversation, at least.

I would like to prevent problems in this situation now rather than respond to a crisis later, if I can.

- LLMs are built by surveillance companies to entice you to share personal thoughts and details

- All the large-scale ethics (stolen data, environmental disaster, enriching fascists)

- These tools don't just filter information like a search engine or a social media algorithm, they also give you a narrative about it. that is an escalation in propaganda strength

Also these are generally paid tools people are using to try to save time. Fussing with local tools with more rough edges are not what the therapist is likely looking for.
@commonst @ShaulaEvans

- humans see faces in clouds, it doesn't take much to convince us something seems like a person. don't fall for it!

- chatbots don't understand or know anything-- they convert all your input words into ID numbers and do statistics on them, that's all

- I wish they would automate my laundry and dishwashing instead of replacing art, am i right?

Some angles I can remember people being interested in:

- gen AI tools are going to get much more expensive soon, so it is risky to start depending on them

- chatbots grab your attention using the same "slot machine" loop as social media feeds: they only give you what you want sometimes, at unpredictable intervals

All we can do is try, right?

> "or just good excuses to reject AI?"

Sorry, you're off topic and being rude and trollish to someone in my mentions. You're blocked.

what are your other concerns? maybe, just like “where the servers are”, something can be done about them.

what do you mean when you say AI “listens” to conversations, is that different than your smartphone “listening” for you to say “hey google”? do you turn your phone off during therapy?

will you allow "almost" trained ai robotic surgeon to open your chest?

Depends on how desperate for the operation I am. Destroying entire professional specialisms economically in order to later replace them with substandard slop machines is already a page in the AI-peddlers playbook. Lots of 2D digital artists I follow have already basically said they're suffering the results of that process at this very moment.

But what happens when LLMs get a bit better, like completely accurate for hours of testing? Whatever people say about human error, AI chatbots still fail in completely different ways from people. LLMs are undergoing gradual improvement, but many expect immediate results. Like, I want to be enthusiastic about the prospect of AI improving, but we've moved seamlessly from them being to hoodwink almost nobody with their head screwed on, to being able to mislead almost all of the population, with only subject matter experts being able to tell. What happens in the next stage, when even the subject matter experts are no longer able to tell AI apart from their peers in the field, but the LLMs continue to produce subtly dangerous output?

I have no answers, just fear...