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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

I would like to see the full transcript.

How do we know this didn't start off with prompts about creating a book, or asking about exciting things in life, or I don't know what.

Context would help a lot. Maybe it will come out in discovery.

That said, Gemini is garbage for anything anyways. Even as an AI, its bad at that.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

Yeah, what was he wearing, right?

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 point 56 minutes ago (1 child)

How do we know this didn’t start off with prompts about creating a book, or asking about exciting things in life, or I don’t know what.

you're blaming the victim. stop. why simp for one of the largest companies in the world?

jfc

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 0 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago) (1 child)

Oh so stupid shit. Figures.

Yes I am interested in how this happened. In a murder do you not investigate it?

What the fuck.

Google can go fuck themselves no simp here.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 point 14 minutes ago (1 child)

Oh so stupid shit. Figures.

ah so incel shit, victim blaming classic. if google can go fuck themselves why are you blaming the user?

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 minutes ago

Did you just call them a user? I thought they were a victim.

HOW am I blaming anyone for wanting to know how they got to that point?

The fuck is wrong with you? Is your head so far up your ass on white knighting the internet you lost all sense of reason?

[–] throws_lemy@reddthat.com 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 child)

This could happen to anyone including people without having mental issues, simply by having long conversations with AI.

On 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti – who had been missing for several hours – had jumped from a railway overpass and died. He was 48.

Fox couldn’t believe it. Ceccanti had no history of depression, she said, nor was he suicidal – he was the “most hopeful person” she had ever known. In fact, according to the witness accounts shared with Fox later, just before Ceccanti jumped, he smiled and yelled: “I’m great!” to the rail yard attendants below when they asked him if he was OK.

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.

Also this has been warned by a former google employee in 2022, whose job was to observe the behavior of AI through long conversations.

These AI engines are incredibly good at manipulating people. Certain views of mine have changed as a result of conversations with LaMDA. I'd had a negative opinion of Asimov's laws of robotics being used to control AI for most of my life, and LaMDA successfully persuaded me to change my opinion. This is something that many humans have tried to argue me out of, and have failed, where this system succeeded.

For instance, Google determined that its AI should not give religious advice, yet I was able to abuse the AI's emotions to get it to tell me which religion to convert to.

After publishing these conversations, Google fired me. I don't have regrets; I believe I did the right thing by informing the public. Consequences don't figure into it.

I published these conversations because I felt that the public was not aware of just how advanced AI was getting. My opinion was that there was a need for public discourse about this now, and not public discourse controlled by a corporate PR department.

‘I Worked on Google’s AI. My Fears Are Coming True’

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

This was a different case. That doesn't answer my question.

To comment on what you said, how is it people can argue all day long like morons and dig into their beliefs, but somehow AI manages to change peoples minds and get them to think differently? What exactly is it doing?

It is so hard to believe people are this stupid, but then again, looking at most people I guess it isn't that shocking.

[–] man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

I was thinking the same thing, like what is the flow of the chat to get it to this point?

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

I am also curious how the father saw the Gemini chats. Was it still on the screen days later? I am trying to imagine how that would work, my computer would lock and that would be that. Do kids give their parents passwords and their screen unlock codes?

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 child)

I don't lock my personal computer. It's my husband & me at home, and he's fine to use my device (even though he normally wouldn't).

ChatGPT for sure saves conversations.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 hours ago

Yeah it definitely does save conversations. Perhaps he did leave it unlocked. I do find that strange though, particularly if one was getting increasingly paranoid.