I was in the “talking to an AI feels weird and dehumanizing” camp but then I actually did it and my discomfort quickly went away. Don’t think of it as a perfect substitute for talking to other people, but rather as a unique activity that is interesting in its own way.
(Just to be clear: I’m referring to talking to an AI when you feel lonely, not to dating an AI. The technology isn’t good enough for the latter yet, unless you have very low standards.)
The only time I’ve had an extended “conversation” with an LLM was when I was trying to get DeepSeek to talk about Taiwan’s independence. At no point did it ever feel like I was talking to a human. It felt a lot more like I was “hacking” it than I was chatting with it.
It’s sad that there are humans so starved for human contact that they’ll talk to an LLM as if it were a person. But, it’s even more sad that there are people who can’t distinguish the slop an LLM puts out from things a human says.
My issue with chatting with LLMs is that the chats are not private and I sure as hell don’t trust the tech companies to not use my deepest secrets to sell me shit.
We live in this dystopia where economics matter more than anything human.
I am as lonely as someone can get. But chatting with an LLM is where I draw the line. But honestly, I get the impulse, loneliness hurts bad…
There are enough lonely people who are burning to have a chat online. Don’t give in to this mental and psychological masturbation.
I was in the “talking to an AI feels weird and dehumanizing” camp but then I actually did it and my discomfort quickly went away. Don’t think of it as a perfect substitute for talking to other people, but rather as a unique activity that is interesting in its own way.
(Just to be clear: I’m referring to talking to an AI when you feel lonely, not to dating an AI. The technology isn’t good enough for the latter yet, unless you have very low standards.)
The only time I’ve had an extended “conversation” with an LLM was when I was trying to get DeepSeek to talk about Taiwan’s independence. At no point did it ever feel like I was talking to a human. It felt a lot more like I was “hacking” it than I was chatting with it.
It’s sad that there are humans so starved for human contact that they’ll talk to an LLM as if it were a person. But, it’s even more sad that there are people who can’t distinguish the slop an LLM puts out from things a human says.
My issue with chatting with LLMs is that the chats are not private and I sure as hell don’t trust the tech companies to not use my deepest secrets to sell me shit.
We live in this dystopia where economics matter more than anything human.
I don’t tell it anything spicier than what I already post publicly.
Jfc