I don’t know what an NPC is but I like using AI because it’s a cheap form of therapy. Even though they’re keeping notes without HIPAA laws in place I figure I don’t matter enough to get put on some sort of government blah blah blah. I’m just another fucked up individual. One of billions I’d imagine.
Please don’t use LLMs for therapy. I know it feels like it’s helping, but LLMs are specifically designed to tell you what you want to hear. People have been convinced to do some very terrible things because the LLMs keep reinforcing beliefs instead of challenging them or pushing back.
I know everything kind of sucks right now, but don’t make it worse by letting the LLM/AI economy start messing with your actual brain.
The dangerous ideas here are the ones you’re pushing. Word regurgitating machines are not therapists, they have no understanding of what’s being said, just that the typical response to a set of words is this other set of words. That’s all they do, and they fuck even that up with high frequency.
Non-player character. Normally a completely reasonable term from video games where, depending on the game, most characters you encounter might not be players.
Then it started being used by the alt-right to refer to people who disagree with them and therefore aren’t people who actually think for themselves but rather following a script, so using it to describe real people is kinda gross. The reasoning being “they believe what everyone else does so they’re sheeple/NPCs”. Because only controversial beliefs are an indication of being capable of thought.
I don’t know what an NPC is but I like using AI because it’s a cheap form of therapy. Even though they’re keeping notes without HIPAA laws in place I figure I don’t matter enough to get put on some sort of government blah blah blah. I’m just another fucked up individual. One of billions I’d imagine.
Please don’t use LLMs for therapy. I know it feels like it’s helping, but LLMs are specifically designed to tell you what you want to hear. People have been convinced to do some very terrible things because the LLMs keep reinforcing beliefs instead of challenging them or pushing back.
I know everything kind of sucks right now, but don’t make it worse by letting the LLM/AI economy start messing with your actual brain.
Terrible advice. LLM chatbots have very positive results for therapy and while it doesn’t replace a human contact it is far, far better than nothing.
Actually crazy to get upvoted for saying to people in need they should just suck it up.
“Terrible Advice”, and “Imagined a response and railed against it” in one comment. Efficient work, for sure.
They were upvoted for being, on the whole, correct.
Their comment is still there, you can read it… ? Their comment is not only wrong, it is dangerous.
It is correct at every word.
The dangerous ideas here are the ones you’re pushing. Word regurgitating machines are not therapists, they have no understanding of what’s being said, just that the typical response to a set of words is this other set of words. That’s all they do, and they fuck even that up with high frequency.
Please read about this subject and stop spreading misinformation.
Non-player character, a bot.
Like you are a robot, letting a statistical output dictate your stuff.
Non-player character. Normally a completely reasonable term from video games where, depending on the game, most characters you encounter might not be players.
Then it started being used by the alt-right to refer to people who disagree with them and therefore aren’t people who actually think for themselves but rather following a script, so using it to describe real people is kinda gross. The reasoning being “they believe what everyone else does so they’re sheeple/NPCs”. Because only controversial beliefs are an indication of being capable of thought.