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ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users: system is acting as your advisor, your friend, your doctor, your lawyer, and so it has information on everything. (futurism.com)
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[–] [S] 90 points 3 days ago (22 children)

Facebook had to stalk your clicks to build a psychological profile. OpenAI figured out people will volunteer their fears, relationships, medical worries, and political beliefs if the surveillance machine responds with: »That sounds really difficult.« The therapist is a database, and the waiting room is a data center.

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  • [–] 72 points 3 days ago* (3 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    And yet there are still millions of people that support this fuckhead by refusing to deactivate their accounts. Apparently, they won’t live without the marketplace.

    Fucking losers.

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  • [+] -30 points 3 days ago (17 children)

    you think that’s all an ai responds with?

    fuck me lemmy STILL living in a chatgpt3.5 turbo world

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  • [–] 21 points 3 days ago (8 children)

    You're right, it responds with a bunch of pablum that sounds convincing and sycophantic, too.

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  • [+] -23 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    then why are you using it?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    I'm... not? I don't touch the stuff.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Then how do you know it only responds with "a bunch of pablum that sounds convincing and sycophantic, too" ?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Because I'm capable of reading chat logs and research posted by humans. I follow this stuff closely, because I'm a software developer and it impacts my career. I don't have to use LLMs to understand how they work and what they do.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    so you knew what you posted was wrong and posted it anyway just to virtue signal?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

    What I posted was correct.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    it wasn’t but we’ll move on

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    Let's not. I'd like you to tell me what I got wrong. I described the output of LLMs as "a bunch of pablum [which means 'trite, insipid, or simplistic writing or speech'] that sounds convincing and sycophantic[.]"

    So do you want studies that show they product pablum, studies that show their output sounds plausible and convincing even when it's wrong, or studies that show they're trained for sycophancy?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Way to miss the point

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  • [+] -16 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    ok whats the point

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    They're talking about how willingly paint eaters like yourself hand over all their personal info to said AI agents, and you got all defensive about the wrong thing. The quip about what it responds with was just that, a quip. The larger conversation is about privacy. The conversation probably went over your head because you've used AI so much you've regressed into an infantile simpleton who happily bends over for corporate data collection.

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  • [+] -8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    The larger conversation is about privacy

    Ok lets have that discussion in 2026:

    People will give their personal info over if it provides them with something useful

    The conversation probably went over your head because you’ve used AI so much you’ve regressed into an infantile simpleton who happily bends over for corporate data collection.

    As an "simpleton who happily bends over for corporate data collection" and a "paint eater" I block most ads as I don't feel they provide an improvement in my life

    However AI without my personal info is less useful, I use it all day every day for everything, it helps improve my life massively, Mistral itself has privacy controls built in that won't collect or store hyper personal info unless you allow it which I have

    What else would you like to discuss?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    See that's a meaningful response, even if I don't personally agree with it. Your original reply did that annoying thing where someone hyperfixates on one tiny part of the comment and ignores the actual topic being discussed.

    Imagine if I replied to your comment with just "2026? A.I. has been a thing for much longer than that." Like, yeah; but also that's not the important part lol

    In reply to your actual comment at the end: It's actually kind of a big problem with LLMs. For them to be useful, they need access to absolutely everything. This has privacy implications, and can even cause catastrophic errors like deleting the database

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  • [–] -1 points 3 days ago*

    Fair enough

    https://lumo.proton.me/ is available but if people find Claude/ChatGPT more useful and/or don't care so I'm not sure what there is to discuss

    It's like having a discussion about personal info and facebook, according to this site:

    https://www.demandsage.com/facebook-statistics/

    Facebook continues to be in the top 3 most used social media, with now 3.07 billion monthly active users (MAUs

    This is over 10 years after the cambridge analytica leak, it's pretty clear most people don't care

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