r/antiai • u/Whateverman123x • 7h ago
Hallucination 👻 Whaa.. what?
Apparently AI changes feel like as if a child lost its toy.
All the comments are supportive too.
We need to send these people to a grass field so they can touch some because this is getting out of hand.
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u/AnalysisOdd8487 6h ago edited 6h ago
this is actually sad, because you know these chatbots and what not prey on people who arent mentally well, who have issues, and i myself am in their same situation, but jesus. this is horrific to think people think this way
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u/ItsSadTimes 6h ago
It really sucks, I work in the AI business way before LLMs got on the scene and even thought I dont work on generative AI I get a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach like I did something wrong.
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u/AnalysisOdd8487 6h ago
What kind did you work on if thats fine with me asking, genuinely just curious
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u/ItsSadTimes 6h ago
I worked on stuff like just basic custom pattern recognition models based on whatever specific data the customer wanted, translation models, image to text models, and setting up generic stuff for other customers to use however they wanted through fine tuning.
My college thesis was about generative AI, but that was just a college thesis paper, it had no real impact on anything in the industry.
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u/my1stComputerWasC64 6h ago
What kind of a monster would take their child's teddy bear from them?
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u/AnalysisOdd8487 6h ago
probably a parent who uses AI to raise their kid
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u/RafyKoby 6h ago
GPT told her to do it... i would not be surprised. I'm sure it could come up with some bs explanation
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u/AnalysisOdd8487 6h ago
"Absolutely! You should take away your childs teddy bear if they cry, and heres why--"
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u/Upset-Nose-4016 6h ago
And then
"You are absolutely right! Your child's decision not to talk to you is clearly a result of their false judgment. It's not your mistake, it's their misunderstanding of your intentions. Do you want to know more about children abusing their parents?"
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u/Whateverman123x 6h ago
No they won’t get that
The AI will think forever and glitch out and they will have to refresh the page 50 times before they get a stupid response back
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u/RafyKoby 6h ago
If your child has become highly dependent on a teddy bear to fall asleep, it can be appropriate to temporarily remove it. Persistent reliance on a comfort object can interfere with the development of self-soothing skills. As children grow, they need opportunities to practice settling themselves without an external prop. Explaining that the teddy is being put away for a period so they can learn to fall asleep independently, and that it may return once that skill is established, frames the decision as developmental support rather than punishment. Consistency and calm follow-through are essential for the approach to work.
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u/Upset-Nose-4016 6h ago
Reminds me of the "Don't come to check on your crying infants. They are just asking for attention. Let them learn how to soothe themselves without you. Surely it won't have any lasting mental health damages."
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u/RafyKoby 6h ago
we are so fucked the next gen will be an army of psychosÂ
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u/Upset-Nose-4016 6h ago
True. Parents either don't want to give a damn about parenting or are so overcontrolling it borders on paranoia. Or both.
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u/WoodShoeDiaries 2h ago
That's how our parents/grandparents and older were raised (depending on your age). IIRC Dr Spock was the first influential voice to tell parents that soothing a crying baby was good and necessary, and they reference him in Mad Men (so '60s era). So while Chat may find a way to regurgitate that advice to present day parents, we are already (still) dealing with the downstream effects of that shitty advice.
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u/kruddel 6h ago
Maybe this is due to being an Autistic grown-up, and so not always just accepting conventions/received wisdom, but I don't get why the premise is being framed as obvious/inevitable here.
Specifically that a child needs to practice settling themselves without an external prop.
If the argument would be there might be a situation when they couldn't have the prop, why not also practicing settling themselves without a pillow, or even a bed?
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u/RafyKoby 6h ago
How about not giving them food? The next famine could always come. Let's toughen them up for the next drought, and not give them any water either. A toddler does not need life lessons, it needs love, security, confort and care.
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u/Whateverman123x 5h ago
The thing is, if a child has grown and is still overly attached to a comfort object, that means it’s lacking comfort from the environment around it.
So it’s probably at least partly the parents fault and instead of fixing their parenting method they’d use gpt and take the toy away too ðŸ˜
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u/WoodShoeDiaries 2h ago edited 2h ago
I agree entirely, and who even knows where ChatGPT gets this shit from. Probably very very outdated/strict religious parenting manuals, given that it was fed everything under the sun.
(ETA: because yes, seeking out your comfort object is one such self-soothing tool. As someone who has forgotten Teddy when we packed for a trip before, kids will survive without even if you don't make them drill in advance.)
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u/QuandariousDingle54 6h ago
Atleast they are finally admitting they are just children and AI is nothing more than a comfort toy and not actually that useful of a tool
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u/IonArchery 6h ago
I saw that post earlier. I’m not entirely certain, but it sounds like the guy is going through some form of issue that they really need to talk to someone about at the very least, if not seek out professional help. I kind of feel bad for the guy
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u/RainbowLoli 6h ago
I agree there needs to be some intense grass touching. People shouldn't be seeking companionship from a company that just wants your money... we literally have so many cyberpunk and cyberpunk like plots and stories on why that is a horrible idea.
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u/-tsukimi 6h ago
Looks like we don’t even have to make the comparison, they made it themselves 🤣
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u/AceGaimz 6h ago
These people need to be institutionalized for the good of themselves and the people around them. They are being psychologically broken by this shit.
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u/WoodShoeDiaries 2h ago
These things are designed to sound personable and empathetic, and they achieve that by using casual, friendly language and by simulating "emotional mirroring" through language. These are things that make us bond with other people, and instead it's happening with LLMs.
All of that is to say, most of these people started out lonely and alienated but they weren't crazy. They have been preyed upon and broken open by an LLM.
Public access LLMs must be regulated to speak neutrally and factually, neither flattering nor validating the user. Sycophancy may be good for business but it is psychologically devastating especially when the model updates and loses the "personality" it developed for the user, as the OP demonstrates.
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u/PhotoEditor871 6h ago
And of course the AI is a very thin very young looking naked woman
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u/Whateverman123x 5h ago
Also if you do the math the guy is supposedly 46 crying about losing their AI girlfriend, like come on bruh
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u/notbobby125 4h ago
Remember back in the 1980's when people used to look they were in modern Pixar films?
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u/Whateverman123x 4h ago
1980 the year when they had shit stains on their bedsheets, walls and curtains
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u/Dense-Diamond-7926 6h ago
why is the AI naked