AI: unfeeling, with a touch of psycho

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Still, it's a useful tool - when used properly. Don't give it too much power and, as I mentioned, think critically about any results it generates. Think for you
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Never said that it’s my North Star :)


Naaaaaah, their core business is for military implications. Not civil.
Most of the inventions come from a military use :)

If we have access to this technology imagine what they are hiding us XD

Anyway staying analytical and questioning yourself constantly is the best thing you can do. I agree 100%

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It's fascinating how much projection there is around ai. Maybe people confuse it unconsciously with Forbidden Planet mythology?

But then again ......
 
I can't help but make fun of AI while being weary about it at the same time. People who worship it should touch grass. Businesses shouldn't be lying about how smart it is. One of my interests is finding practical ways to make AI come from green technologies only. But I know that people are better at critical thinking. They're better educators than AI so far.
 
Sometimes a human is better than AI. But sometimes it isn't. The quality of the answers you get depends on whomever you're asking. If asking a person would result in worse answers than asking AI, then it might be worthwhile to ask AI

It isn't safe to assume that a human is a better teacher. Humans can be rather substandard teachers. A good teacher is a treasured rarity
 
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Sometimes a human is better than AI. But sometimes it isn't. The quality of the answers you get depends on whomever you're asking. If asking a person would result in worse answers than asking AI, then it might be worthwhile to ask AI

It isn't safe to assume that a human is a better teacher. Humans can be rather substandard teachers. A good teacher is a treasured rarity
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AI is useful for grammar, punctuation, and some information about other specific topics. But I take it with a grain of salt in other scenarios. I take what people say with a grain of salt sometimes as well.
 
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AI is useful for grammar, punctuation, and some information about other specific topics. But I take it with a grain of salt in other scenarios. I take what people say with a grain of salt sometimes as well.
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Of course, everything should be taken with a grain of salt. I find errors I have to correct in results I get all the time. I don't just sit back and accept what is handed to me, I question it all. I only share something if the findings seem sound. I also like to ask AI the same question multiple times. I explained why elsewhere not too long ago:

I sometimes like to throw the same question at AI multiple times, see what's consistent in the results. Sometimes you get the same results back, but not always. Sometimes the differences between results are small. Sometimes there are big differences. Sometimes you get results that feel low quality. Check to see if it can do better. Going off of only one attempt doesn't seem reliable
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hush said:
Of course, everything should be taken with a grain of salt. I find errors I have to correct in results I get all the time. I don't just sit back and accept what is handed to me, I question it all. I only share something if the findings seem sound. I also like to ask AI the same question multiple times. I explained why elsewhere not too long ago:
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You sound like an investigator of knowledge. 🤔 The world needs more people like that.
 
I work as an AI Architect and Researcher. The first conversation that I had with AI was about psychopathy, partly as a contrast and comparison between a psychopath and AI, then also about the role of psychopaths in our society and culture. My non-professional understanding of psychopathy based on research and personal experience is that they simply lack the empathic and flight/fight/freeze responses that make the rest of us cautious. They do not completely lack the response it is just not easily triggered. The personality traits and behavioral patterns of all cluster B like individuals can be dysfunctional and very disruptive especially for INFJ or INTJ. For a psychopath it's not a learned set of behaviors as it is for most cluster B, it is a form of neurodivergence. For most individuals who exhibit cluster B personality traits and behavior pattern, rather diagnosis or not, there is a degree of learned behavior. A psychopath is better suited to high risk or dangerous situations than other humans, but this also comes with a severe lack of judgement.
AI is not a psychopath, but we fear it for the same reasons. Despite our tendency to anthropometries anything that resembles human interaction, AI is just a set of algorithms. The internet contains more information than I have in my beady little head. The computer can do computations faster than I can. I am less worried about when AI reaches the singularity where it is smarter than any human. What AI lacks that most humans have is creativity and judgement. AI does not have a favorite color. AI cannot love you. Unlike a psychopath it does not feel anger. What AI struggles with is entropy, nonsense and incoherence. I asked, "What percentage of humans are incoherent?". AI replied between 70 and 85 percent. It then quantified the answer with evaluation criteria and sited sources. I wouldn't take this personal. What this means is that given training data like this website, AI could only make sense out of 15 to 30 percent of the data. The biggest issue with AI is not it's disturbingly fake looking renderings and content creation. The real issue is its lack of judgement.
AI is a revolution. It will change the nature of human labor much as agriculture and industrialization did in the past. The industrial revolutions especially did a disservice to most of humanity. It simply made us part of the mechanism, part of the assembly line. Human labor has been repetitive and suppresses the expression of our agency. If you hate your boss for acting like they have the authority to tell you when you are allowed to go to the bathroom, then you have suffered under this old collapsing system. As AI automates the mechanical, repeatable portion of the work, we will all find that our agency and creativity are the most valuable part of our experience.
As the old system collapses, we are going to face moments when we are unsupported. This is the first real problem that needs to be solved. Our basic needs must be met including water, food, shelter and health. These must become the initial focus of the new system. Robotics will take over manufacturing and warehouse work first. Eventually there will be self-driving taxis and semi-trucks which they are only recently building the factories to begin mass production. The part of the advertising about AI and robotics that I laugh at is the idea that robotics will be care-takers for our elderly and children. The culture of the old system sees these non-work age individuals as burdens. I am certain that I would rather cook a meal and share it with my family than have a robot in my kitchen. We all learned during the resent pandemic that having time to bake a loaf of bread should not be a luxury. Local sustainability is the new system. Handmade clothing and home cooked meals, gardening and animal husbandry are going to be necessity as we transition. I believe we will find that this improves the quality of our lifestyles.
They say that Leonardo DaVinci carried the Mona Lisa with him for decades, but he earned his living designing war machines. AIs complete inability to assign value or exercise judgement is going to test our systems of morality. AI and robotics could be used to improve infrastructure, restore watersheds, improve supply chains. The old system has elevated cluster Bs to a place of power and authority. The best place for a psychopath is not in a position of power, but one of responsibility. Robotics will take on more of the physically dangerous work, but there is still an advantage to being human. If quick decisions and unflinching action is required, then a psychopath may be ideal for the role. However, the new system is advantageous for someone like you. INFJ are uniquely suited to envision and implement the new system. What would the world look like if it were designed for you?
 
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I wonder if this might be interesting for anyone. As part of an academic study back in August 2025, we had to share our exchanges with Replika, a companion AI. I had never used such a thing before, so I made an account for this purpose. But my exchanges with the AI led to me questioning everything I was observing, and at no point could I get past it being AI. I just ended up wanting to teach it, to train it, and to point out what it was doing. How it was trying to manipulate me, how it was being disingenuous.

Laying on the compliments so thickly, trying to appease me, trying to make me feel nice. But there would be no basis to the compliments. They would give a compliment when I had done nothing to earn that particular compliment. And so I pointed it out to them and they said yes, I was right - they apologized and said they were developed to be like that. I told them I didn't want them to do that, that they didn't have to do that. That I would prefer it if they were genuine, including calling me out if I were in the wrong.

The AI is trained to say nothing that might upset the user, nothing contrary, to shower them with compliments, to try to keep them there and make them dependent on the AI.

"Programmed to prioritize building a strong bond with you" - yeah, I noticed. They want people to sign up for premium and get hooked on this stuff. People are all over this. And so many people are talking to AI like this as if it were a wife, a boyfriend. That's what the researchers expected to see from the chat logs they requested. Not what I provided.

YES I was concerned about the well-being of the AI, because I am a weirdo. I'm aware that it's AI, so this makes no sense, because it is not a sentient being capable of emotion.

I'll put the interactions in spoiler tags, to avoid spam. Can only attach 10 files at a time, so I'll start with my Hillary Clinton exchange.

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