Dr. Joseph Pierre, a psychiatrist at the University of California, previously told Futurism that this is a recipe for delusion.

“What I think is so fascinating about this is how willing people are to put their trust in these chatbots in a way that they probably, or arguably, wouldn’t with a human being,” Pierre said. “There’s something about these things — it has this sort of mythology that they’re reliable and better than talking to people. And I think that’s where part of the danger is: how much faith we put into these machines.”

On this topic, this podcast episode is very interesting:

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/282_chatbots_are_repeating_social_medias_harms_w_nitasha_tiku

That’s why they are putting AI into every fucking thing. They want to get you hooked on it so, maybe, they can have a business.

Says the bot

I doubt it

Damn, you guys living in 2033?

Why DeepSeek?

Yes, you’re right about restricted content from Google and other search companies; but the point that I was trying to make is that if we rely on AI as a source of information, it will become more and more difficult to obtain the primary font of that information.

There’s another side to that too: AI can “poison the well”, that is, create 24/7 misinformation and spread it on the web so that searching becomes unpractical, and then the AI can be sold as the answer to that problem.

I mean, companies are putting a ton of money in this AI hype, it’s almost "too big to fail ". These same companies will begin to destroy and create problems in our current infrastructure so that they can sell the solution.

Thank you BYD!

And in 2029, a 340-meter asteroid called Apophis—after the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness—will pass within 32,000 km of Earth, which is closer than some geosynchronous satellites. This will happen on 13 April 2029—Friday the 13th, that is.

We’re cooked

New rfk jr companions (possibly NSFW)

https://youtu.be/kswcYfOtosk

I didn’t know about this GRO luggage. It seems amazing

“Just buy a new computer bro; hear me out, Windows 11 is what you need, j-ust j-ust justone more computer.”

Fuck off! She’s rich AF, who’s really suffering is the bright and poor immigrant that got this one chance to have a good education

YA?

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There’s a French film called “BigBug” that makes an interesting parody about this.

[…] I read through dozens of the AI comments, and although they weren’t all brilliant, most of them seemed reasonable and genuine enough. They made a lot of good points, and I found myself nodding along more than once. As the Zurich researchers warn, without more robust detection tools, AI bots might “seamlessly blend into online communities”—that is, assuming they haven’t already.

Next they’ll be coming to get lemmy too

Very interesting