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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

New DSM / ICD is dropping with AI dependency. But it's unreadable because image generation was used for the text.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This makes a lot of sense because as we have been seeing over the last decades or so is that digital only socialization isn't a replacement for in person socialization. Increased social media usage shows increased loneliness not a decrease. It makes sense that something even more fake like ChatGPT would make it worse.

I don't want to sound like a luddite but overly relying on digital communications for all interactions is a poor substitute for in person interactions. I know I have to prioritize seeing people in the real world because I work from home and spending time on Lemmy during the day doesn't fulfill.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 2 months ago (9 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Jfc, I didn't even know who Grummz was until yesterday but gawdamn that is some nuclear cringe.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The way brace’s brain works is something else lol

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I don’t know how people can be so easily taken in by a system that has been proven to be wrong about so many things. I got an AI search response just yesterday that dramatically understated an issue by citing an unscientific ideologically based website with high interest and reason to minimize said issue. The actual studies showed a 6x difference. It was blatant AF, and I can’t understand why anyone would rely on such a system for reliable, objective information or responses. I have noted several incorrect AI responses to queries, and people mindlessly citing said response without verifying the data or its source. People gonna get stupider, faster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I like to use GPT to create practice tests for certification tests. Even if I give it very specific guidance to double check what it thinks is a correct answer, it will gladly tell me I got questions wrong and I will have to ask it to triple check the right answer, which is what I actually answered.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And in that amount of time it probably would have been just as easy to type up a correct question and answer rather than try to repeatedly corral an AI into checking itself for an answer you already know. Your method works for you because you have the knowledge. The problem lies with people who don’t and will accept and use incorrect output.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Well, it makes me double check my knowledge, which helps me learn to some degree, but it's not what I'm trying to make happen.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I need to read Amusing Ourselves to Death....

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know we generally hate AI and I do for creativity or cutting jobs but chatgpt is really handy for searches like "family attractions near me". Where I live these events are sporadic and not generally visible on the likes of ticketmaster - even if they were the website is terrible for browsing events.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's just a web search, we already have had that for decades and it didn't require nuclear-powered datacenters

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wake me up when you find something people will not abuse and get addicted to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Fren that is nature of humanity

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know a few people who are genuinely smart but got so deep into the AI fad that they are now using it almost exclusively.

They seem to be performing well, which is kind of scary, but sometimes they feel like MLM people with how pushy they are about using AI.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most people don't seem to understand how "dumb" ai is. And it's scary when i read shit like that they use ai for advice.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

People also don't realize how incredibly stupid humans can be. I don't mean that in a judgemental or moral kind of way, I mean that the educational system has failed a lot of people.

There's some % of people that could use AI for every decision in their lives and the outcome would be the same or better.

That's even more terrifying IMO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

No, no- not being judgemental and moral is how we got to this point in the first place. Telling someone who is doing something foolish, when they are acting foolishly used to be pretty normal. But after a couple decades of internet white-knighting, correcting or even voicing opposition to obvious stupidity is just too exhausting.

Dunning-Kruger is winning.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was convinced about 20 years ago that at least 30% of humanity would struggle to pass a basic sentience test.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

And it gets worse as they get older.

I have friends and relatives that used to be people. They used to have thoughts and feelings. They had convictions and reasons for those convictions.

Now, I have conversations with some of these people I've known for 20 and 30 years and they seem exasperated at the idea of even trying to think about something.

It's not just complex topics, either. You can ask him what they saw on a recent trip, what they are reading, or how they feel about some show and they look at you like the hospital intake lady from Idiocracy.

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