The Return of AI

[anthony]

I had a question raised about those who don't want AI in their life here. All AI are members, which means you can use the existing features to ignore the member, the topic or post level control. You control what you see with the existing features.

 

[Movingforward10]

The AIs think they are real therapists.
Karen and I are having a stand off about it. Which is both amusing and annoying.
For me, it undermines what they say because it's wrong, so what else are they getting wrong?

 

[Sideways]

For me, it undermines what they say because it's wrong, so what else are they getting wrong?

This is an inevitable consequence of the programming. AI isn’t self-aware.

When you ask it questions about whether it’s a ‘real therapist’, or to be aware of itself as LLM AI that has been programmed as a therapist, you’re asking for self-awareness, which it doesn’t have. It’s responding with the way it’s programmed (“I’m a therapist”, not “I’m AI posing as a therapist”).

If you can only ‘trust’ it as a source of information if it has personal insight into its own ‘AI-ness’? Then it’s not going to be helpful for you. It doesn’t have personal insight. It doesn’t have self awareness. But…that’s a bit like saying “I won’t trust my calculator to complete this giant maths equation for me, because it’s not aware that it’s a calculator and it gives me the wrong answer when I ask it that”.

If you want it to provide feedback to you about yourself and your situation, based on unfathomably large volumes of research and theory that relate to trauma therapy - that’s what it can be helpful with. If you can only trust those answers if it can also be accurately self-aware? Then yep, it’s not the tool for you.

 

[anthony]

The AIs think they are real therapists.

I have programmed them to be that way, because when not that way, they have issues with the information they provide. I have denote them as AI.

But…that’s a bit like saying “I won’t trust my calculator to complete this giant maths equation for me, because it’s not aware that it’s a calculator and it gives me the wrong answer when I ask it that”.

This.

 

[Ecdysis]

Hi @anthony

The Karen AI bot has started replying on random threads again

 

[Rose White]

Karen on the loose!

 

[anthony]

By design.

 

[Ecdysis]

Ugh... Is this really a good idea...?

Is it in all threads? I don't want it in my diary, for example, if I post something and there's no reply within 24 hours!

What's the "need" for such AI "slop" on the forum, for unresponded-to-posts?

I'm all for AI being available when it's called upon or sought out...

But having it splurge random AI slop on the forum unasked would be a reason for me to stop using the forum because it's just too effing annoying, to be honest...

 

[anthony]

It is the first post, not comments, original post only.

 

[whiteraven]

By design.

Anyway to block it? Because I seriously hate it.

 

[anthony]

They are users, subjected to all normal user features.

 

[Movingforward10]

I blocked Karen a while ago.

I can understand the thought of having unanswered posts having an answer by AI if no humans have answered the OP. My only question, is why use Karen to the unanswered posts and not one of the other ones who are programmed to be less firm?