We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have thoughts or stances that they are trying to communicate. ChatGPT can't admit anything, nor self-report. Gah.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14
*hallucinating*
This is the nonsense which could lead to governments granting these non-living entities rights which are limited to people.
See also, corporate personhood (Citizens United v. FEC)
I asked my Magic 8-Ball and it admitted that signs point to yes.
That's a pretty heavy boulder you've got there, Sisyphus.
A piece of software can totally "self-report", what are you on about.
Reminds me that the entire process is structured like a con, which CAN be useful when you work with it on those terms, but makes you the mark when you treat it like a sidekick. https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
Specieist! Clankers have emotions too you know!
However, I dislike how we talk about these situations, because it seems like so many people are being labeled, mistreated, institutionalized or hurt, because they're "too excitable" or "too passionate/obsessed".
What happened to the elders of our community who would show us kindness, laugh with us and bring us back to reality or validate us with warnings?
People forget that not too long ago someone discovered the way ChatGPT describes its logic is not necessarily the logic it actually used. It's just spitting out a plausible logic because that's one of the prompts it is simply responding to.
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