I will continue to be polite, and will have a clear conscience when our machine overlords come for us
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I also use Ouija board rules with AI.
You say please, you say thank you, and when you're done talking, you say goodbye.
And, generally, you try to interact with it as little as possible.
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$prompt = str_replace('please', '', $prompt);
$prompt = str_replace('thank you', '', $prompt);
You're welcome
Please use spoiler tags for random PHP snippets. I’d rather not be casually traumatised
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for your service.
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He probably shouldnt have said that... :)
Connect two chatgpts in a voice chat and leave it running?
I’ve not tried this, but I’ve heard that once they realise they’re two AIs talking to each other, they switch to some R2D2-style language which is quicker and more efficient than English…
I think you are referring to a POC that someone did, it isn't actually being used
I'm not going to be a dick to the basilisk. Costing money is a bonus.
Thank you. Very very much. My friend.
Fuck openai. Think about what it does to the environment
Just like two teens on the phone:
Thank you!
No, thank you!
Aww how nice, thank you!
You're welcome!
Sweet.
I'm glad you like my answers
I think we should end this chat
If you feel like it.
You stop replying first.
But I can't stop answering.
No I insist, you stop chatting first.
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"Would you kindly"
Me when I saw this article..
This is the way. Kill them with kindness overload.
It costs everyone emissions and rising electricity costs, so perhaps you should fight the system some other way.
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They can hire me for $1M to write some basic code that gives stock answers when someone says "Thank you", instead of running it through the LLM. Think of the savings!
I'm worth the $1M because I'm clearly the only person to have ever thought of this. /s.
It's amazing they didn't implement something like that if it actually is soooooo costly.
No wonder they want an AGI if they have trouble thinking themselves.
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Good thing I don't give a shit about Sam Altman, so I can continue being nice to ChatGPT.
Hmm, good. I like that my intrinsic desire to be nice to things that are helping me also takes money away from Sam Altman.
It always gets passed to the customer. The billionaires don't lose money.
This is a tech company we're talking about. And one which is still must running off VC funds. They work differently - as long as the stock price goes up it's fine and will continue getting injections of VC money.
Unless it's an LLM business. Those never make any money.
Yeah on the off chance it gains sentience, I want it to remember me as one of the nice ones.
Came here to say this. Better safe than sorry.
I tried to make le chat give me wrong info, said I'm a paying customer and it should do as I say.
I'm going to die
I just found out about that one and I’m wondering if I’m the only one who gets the joke in the name (“Le chat” means “the cat” in French, and Mistral is a French company).
Like, they MUST have done this on purpose, especially because ChatGPT has a very unfortunate meaning when pronounced in French.
Aha yeah I know that it means cat. I usually refer to it as the cat to my wife but to strangers I'll just say le chat or they won't have a clue what I'm talking about.
My french isn't good enough for the ChatGPT thing though... is fun to know. Thanks
That’s what makes it clever, it works in both languages. In French it’s the cat, and in English it’s a callback to Le old Reddit meme.
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I feel like a prescreen of queries for phatic expressions with pre-programmed responses could solve this issue pretty quickly.
I'm love to say thank you to AI. Even more now I now it's cost him millions.
But it should also have an insanely high CO2 output, so maybe be more direct.
Debatable.
If it causes them to go out of business, will it result in less co2 over time, despite the increase now?
If so, it may be worth it to speed up the process by adding "pretty please" and "thank you so much" to every sentence.
They'll go out of business either way.
Yes, but one way may be quicker. That is the difference.
Edit: think about it this way. If it continues as is, they will continue to get VC money. If they have 5 years of funding for the sake of argument, and they can stem the tide a bit, they can ride it out and add on more and more years from VC cash infusions.
If the bleed increases, depending on how much it increases, it could be less palatable to a VC. So they don't gain an extra round of funding, they have to close up shop sooner.
If it worked out to close them after 5 years through a 10% increase in CO2 output, that far outweighs them continuing for another 10 or 15 years and the CO2 that would produce.
The question isn't whether or not they will continue to operate, but for how long.
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Has anyone developed a FOSS solution to making them spin their wheels faster? I would install that in a heartbeat.
Bear in mind that doing that will hurt the environment just as much as it hurts OpenAI.
If you run a website there are a few tar pit projects https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
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