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BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoTo me it’s always just been a tool, nothing more. The sentences have a certain feel to them that I can’t describe. It’s always the same structure, the same kind of forced humor… granted I’ve spent quite some time with unfiltered LLMs but it looses its magic once you’ve “learned” it. Pattern recognition is quite an overpowered feature we as humans have. It is the reason why we fall for conspiracy theories also.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
i genuinely get a more human vibe from duckduckgo’s AI summaries of wikipedia articles, just because it doesn’t go out of its way to act human and keeps the answers short
and this has been a thing ever since we had any sort of personal assistants, it’s so fucking eerie to have the computer try to act human, but when you make it try to obviously be artificial it instead feels actively comfortable!
Like the computer in star trek voyager, the fact that it replies with bleeps or just doesn’t respond at all if it doesn’t need to means i just don’t think about it, but if it were to always respond vocally it’d feel creepy as fuck beause it’s like having a butler following you and giving running commentary…
Actually now that i think about it, the butler comparison is apt in general. A good butler stays in the background and doesn’t try to act like they’re a normal friend, because that would be weird.