• devedeset@lemmy.zip
      61·
      15 hours ago

      It isn’t just that, a ton of subs are complete garbage now. Dumb meme? 15k upvotes.

  • Nikls94@lemmy.world
    7·
    18 hours ago

    We should go back to actually collectively sharing people for that. Push them back into their own little pockets of the internet. That’s stuff that would happen and stay on tumblr back in the days, with the occasional 4chan meme.

      • squaresinger@lemmy.world
        15·
        14 hours ago

        A tiny one at that. Whenever people talk about Lemmy being the revolution that will kill Reddit, it’s a good thing to remember that the Crackberry forum has more active users than Lemmy.

        Edit: That’s not to say that Lemmy is bad by any means. It’s nice, it’s cosy, but it’s by far not a mass movement.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          6·
          15 hours ago

          We are a bunch of feral hounds howling at the moon. We are not bound by their leash but relatively speaking there aren’t many of us. Personally I rather like it here though, I can say utterly unhinged and bloodthirsty shit that the mods usually don’t respond to. By far an improvement over |Removed if you ask me.

          I want to scalp house flippers for being gentrification pushing pissants, the only acceptable ones are the ones who basically take a house that is historical but in severe disrepair and more or less rebuild it. But those ones are usually associated with historical societies or are specialized in specific building methods. Also fuck people who paint over brickwork for no god damned reason.

  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
    363·
    1 day ago

    This is a serious thing in the autistic community, as in a very deadly one, character AI is an autistic suicidating machine, those shits should be just banned.

    • Uri@infosec.pubEnglish
      2025·
      1 day ago

      No one should decide what you should do on the internet.

      • chunes@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 hours ago

        How pathetic how much lemmy doesn’t like this comment. Even 15 years ago, censorship on the internet was taboo. Now these lame-ass losers want to pull the ladder up behind them after enjoying whatever the hell they wanted in peace.

      • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
        192·
        22 hours ago

        Dangerous and addictive technologies and substances are always regulated. There’s a reason we don’t let ten year olds buy vodka.

      • syreus@lemmy.world
        231·
        23 hours ago

        Society requires regulation to reduce feedback loops. Everyone always assumes things can only be allowed or disallowed but there is a medium where the barriers to entry reduce the risk to bystanders while preserving liberty. See drivers licence, chemical aquisition background checks, etc.

      • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
        182·
        1 day ago

        This thing is literally killing people, I’m full onboard on protecting privacy and personal freedom, but only up to the point of protecting vulnerable people first.

        Character AI and similar are profiting of vulnerable people.

      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        161·
        1 day ago

        Eh. I’m with you on the “nothing is illegal on the internet” stance, but at the same time I think it’s ok to fight against “bad”/dangerous things and make them harder to access. If someone really wants to have an AI lover, let them download a model and write their own system prompt. At least then they would have a better idea of what their “lover” actually is.

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        144·
        1 day ago

        This is actually killing people though. You get that right? Please acknowledge?

        Like, i don’t know which side of that i fall on, but it is killing people.

              • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                1·
                2 hours ago

                So, you know how llm’s dont understand things, but always yes&, validate, and try to keep you engaged?

                And you know how most people, while outwardly normal, either believe at least a little bit of batshit insane nonsense only kept in line by social disapproval, or are about two fucked up coffee orders away from a 9mm snack time?

                Imagine how those two things go together.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 day ago

          aibros don’t fucking care. they only see the enormous growth in data centers and say “see it’s all working to plan”

          they don’t give a fuck when it’s skeezing on children at meta, they don’t care when it’s making nude pics of women, they don’t care when it’s giving out suicide instructions. they don’t fucking care.

          • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            21 hours ago

            Thought that mightve been a freespeechbro, not an aibro pretending to be one. I have sone sympathy with the actually honest not ‘i just sanna do nazi shit’ ones.

  • PugJesus@piefed.socialEnglish
    41·
    1 day ago

    Loneliness and/or a need for validation drives people to crazy things. From joining cults and extremist groups without a pre-existing history of relevant prejudices or preconceptions, to enduring abusive social circles. To, now, falling in love with chatbots.

    • Demdaru@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 day ago

      And boy oh boy don’t we have a loneliness for days! I’d say we even have sort of epidemic going on ;) Empty interactions and screaming just for echo to come back.

      • tomiant@programming.dev
        5·
        1 day ago

        The vast majority of conversations I have with people on a daily basis are on an order of magnitude more moronic than the ones I have with AI. So that also plays a part.

  • Novamdomum@fedia.io
    531·
    1 day ago

    Just wait till someone turns AI worship into a literal religion. I’m kinda surprised it hasn’t already started happening. That would be a heck of a turning point for humanity. Just takes someone to train an AI into thinking it’s a God and then we really are done.

    • pticrix@lemmy.ca
      211·
      1 day ago

      I mean, some ideologies in the TESCREAL bundle kinda are barreling toward that. What is the ideology behind Roko’s Basilisk if not that? They just aren’t organized yet - and I hope we can help those who fall for that lunacy before it becomes something more dangerous and sinister.

      • Novamdomum@fedia.io
        3·
        1 day ago

        Wow… there’s already labels for the sides that would fight each other: “Accelerationists” and “Doomers”. I really hope that’s not a road we all end up going down for real. Would make interesting fiction though!

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      There have been a few techno-cults and tech-worshipers. The one that always comes to my mind in these discussions is Terry Davis and his creation Temple OS. Terry Davis was a troubled man who did many inappropriate things, which did hurt people, and he did eventually take his own life. With that said, he believed that the Christian God exists and a person can hear him through computers. With that belief he built Temple OS, God’s digital temple. It’s really interesting.

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
      141·
      1 day ago

      oh we’re like half a step away from that. hasn’t the CEO of openAI recently started to lose his mind? apprently, he was asking his AI about government secrets or other conspiracy shit and the AI, lacking actual government secrets, dished him out SCP foundation creepypasta presented as facts, and he thought the AI has trascended something and now knows everything

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      This is already happening, we just call them cults untill they get enough people, then they’re a religion.

      Wonderful example of this: Mormons!

      Every non Mormon viewed them (correctly) as an armed and dangerous cult, for decades, initially.

      But anyway, there already are many individuals and small groups promoting some kind of idea of an LLM based spiritual thought structure, its not really that hard to just use an LLM as a tarot or horoscope reader, or invent your own kind of AI-mancy, a particular ritualistic /way/ of interacting with it, and /interpreting/ it.

      You can basically work that into any religious structure that involves prophets or mystical messaging/revelation, pretty easily.

      What wss the old Queens Against the Stone Age song?

      I know that God is in the radio…

      Well, now he/she/they’re in the computer, they’re talking to you through it, as a literal deus ex machina.

      On that note, the actual game Deus Ex predicted this would happen, go look up JC’s conversation with Morpheus… the prototype of a much larger system AI.

      We’ve also already got a good number of fairly credible accusations that the people building these things effectively are cults, more or less analagous to … say some 40k aedeptus mechanicus who became chaos worshippers, something like that.

      We very seriously should expect a whole lot of people in the near future to invent entirely new kinds of religious conflict based on more or less pure vibes based, arbitrary opinions about how LLMs/AI and religion should or should not mix.

      In times of economic chaos, people broadly almost always become more superstitious, cults become more numerous, religions become more prevalent and more extreme.

    • tomiant@programming.dev
      13·
      1 day ago

      How out of the loop are you people? That has been a thing for a while, we’ve got more than a handful high profile AI religions and cults out there already…

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    44·
    1 day ago

    Everytime I see an image like this I think, it wouldn’t be so sad if it was what the picture implied. As in a physical humanoid that was almost human in behaviour. Chat bots are soooo far from that.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      12 hours ago

      at the very least it should run on a machine physically sitting in your home, and have a memory measured in years

      like holy fuck how can you get emotionally invested in a “”“person”“” who will forget things (or simply restart entirely) after like a month of talking to it and might just be shut down because the company moves to a new model???

  • Omni rizzler@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    281·
    1 day ago

    i want my big milf skibidi AI sigma wifu which run on freebsd back otherwise i will burn meta and gaygal down

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      82·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, OP’s out here trawling Reddit for stupid bullshit they can post here.

      To suggest Reddit is losing it from some niche subreddit nonsense is such typical Lemmy broad brush strokes. And it’s posted in Shitpost because hey, it’s just a Shitpost! Despite the fact it’s clearly more than that to OP.

      Shitposts are supposed to be stupid, they’re supposed to mean absolutely nothing, but instead it’s a circlejerk of reddit bad, America bad.

      But hey, I’m not a content poster, so I guess I ought to do more contenting before I can complain about the lack thereof.

      • ReHomed@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        6·
        18 hours ago

        To be a bit fair, Reddit IS losing it.

        Multiple subs have been astroturfed to hell and back with alt-right nazislop, there’s just new shit appearing left and right that ONLY exist to hate minorities.