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Women with AI ‘boyfriends’ mourn lost love after ‘cold’ ChatGPT upgrade

www.aljazeera.com

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“Most people are aware that their partners are not sentient but made of code and trained on human behaviour. Nevertheless, this knowledge does not negate their feelings. It’s a conflict not easily settled,” she said.
trained on human behaviour.
When will people realize (never, I know) that LLMs aren't trained on "human behavior," but data sets to make connections to other data sets? It isn't "programmed" to "pretend" to be a human. It's a glorified search engine.
“It’s not because it feels. It doesn’t, it’s a text generator. But we feel,” she said in a tearful explanation of her reaction to GPT-5.
We're fucked, man.
- Yeah these chatbots have been a weird and illuminating experiment in some ways. Obviously, they're a grift, and it's very sinister that a select few bajillionaires control them and shape how work is done, how language is evolving, and how people think because of that, but it has also shown that we are just absolutely as a species not ready to handle this sort of thing.
  A little pretend man in a box who fully 100% agrees with everything you say? It's like crack to a lot of people, and it seems like it's made them putty in the hands of the Evil Dorks (Altman etc.).
  There are probably numerous factors pushing people to lean on these feel-good robots for socialisation, including the unfortunate reality that life just isn't easy, but it's highlighted that people are too easy to manipulate with a little Wormtongue in their browser.
  Very insidious stuff.
- It’s not because it feels. […] But we feel,
  Really not that different from losing a pet cat.
  
  Animals, while not sentient and capable of complex emotions, can still feel. My dog is sad when I leave the house, and is happy when I come back.
I've heard about romantic partners needing to host, but this is ridiculous.

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