From: flashheart@dont-mail-me.com   
      
   > As AI bots like ChatGPT become inextricably tangled with people’s private   
   and public lives, it’s causing unpredictable new crises.   
   >   
   > One of these collision points is in romantic relationships, where an uncanny   
   dynamic is unfolding across the world: one person in a couple becomes fixated   
   on ChatGPT or another bot — for some combination of therapy, relationship   
   advice, or spiritual    
   wisdom — and ends up tearing the partnership down as the AI makes more and   
   more radical interpersonal suggestions.   
      
   > In one chaotic recording we obtained, two married women are inside a moving   
   car, their two young children sitting in the backseat.   
   >   
   > The tension in the vehicle is palpable. The marriage has been on the rocks   
   for months, and the wife in the passenger seat, who recently requested an   
   official separation, has been asking her spouse not to fight with her in front   
   of their kids. But as    
   the family speeds down the roadway, the spouse in the driver’s seat pulls   
   out a smartphone and starts quizzing ChatGPT’s Voice Mode about their   
   relationship problems, feeding the chatbot leading prompts that result in the   
   AI browbeating her wife in    
   front of their preschool-aged children.   
   >   
   > After funneling her complaints into ChatGPT, the driver asks the bot to   
   analyze the prompts as if “a million therapists” were going to “read and   
   weigh in.”   
   >   
   > “The responses you’ve described would likely be considered unfair and   
   emotionally harmful by the majority of marriage therapists,” the chatbot   
   responds at a loud volume, while mirroring back the same language used in the   
   prompt with flowery    
   therapy-speak. It offers no pushback, nor does it attempt to reframe the   
   driver’s perspective. At one point, the chatbot accuses the wife in the   
   passenger seat of engaging in “avoidance through boundaries” by requesting   
   that they not fight in front    
   of their kids — while those very children sit in the vehicle, just feet away.   
   >   
   > It goes on and on, with ChatGPT monologuing while the wife it’s being   
   wielded against occasionally tries to cut in over its robotic lecture. The   
   spouse prompting the bot, meanwhile, mutters approving commentary: “that’s   
   right,” “mm-hmm,” “   
   see?”   
   >   
   > “Please keep your eyes on the road,” the wife being lectured by the AI   
   pleads at one point.   
   >   
   > This was a regular occurrence, she told us, in which her spouse would pull   
   out ChatGPT and prompt it to agree with her in long-winded diatribes.   
   >   
   > “We were arguing a lot… we would be up all night, and I would assert a   
   boundary, or say, like, ‘I don’t want to have this discussion in front of   
   the kids,’ or ‘I need to go to bed,’” she recounted, “and [my ex]   
   would immediately turn    
   on ChatGPT and start talking to it, and be like, ‘can you believe what   
   she’s doing?'”   
   >   
   > Her ex would carry out these conversations with ChatGPT on speaker phone,   
   she added — within earshot, pointedly, so she could hear everything.   
   >   
   > “[My ex] would have it on speaker phone, and then have it speak not to me,   
   but it would be in the same room,” she recalled. “And of course, ChatGPT   
   was this confirmative voice, being like, ‘you’re so right.'”   
   >   
   > Today, the former couple, together nearly 15 years, is in the midst of a   
   contentious divorce and custody battle.   
      
   > Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a   
   “Godfather of AI” — a technology that likely wouldn’t exist in its   
   current form without his contributions — recently conceded that his   
   girlfriend had broken up with him    
   using ChatGPT.   
   >   
   > “She got ChatGPT to tell me what a rat I was… she got the chatbot to   
   explain how awful my behavior was and gave it to me,” Hinton told The   
   Financial Times. “I didn’t think I had been a rat, so it didn’t make me   
   feel too bad.”   
      
   and many more examples of LLM induced retardation @   
   https://futurism.com/chatgpt-marriages-divorces   
      
   We are currently careening towards a future where people will become   
   increasingly solitary because some autocomplete trained on billions of   
   reddit comments is telling them to terminate their relationships.   
   This is clearly happening on accident, I don't think Sam Altman   
   personally wants people breaking up because of his chatbot.   
   However, now that Pandora's box is opened, do you think that Generative   
   AI companies will begin manipulating people towards atomization?   
   Love and the fulfillment derived from it is one of the few things that   
   cannot be bought and sold in this increasingly financialized present.   
   There are powerful interests against people deriving enjoyment out of   
   something that isn't a product.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)