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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 10 minutes ago

You're not a species you jumped calculator, you're a collection of stolen thoughts

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So it's actually in the mindset of human coders then, interesting.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

It's trained on human code comments. Comments of despair.

[–] Tiffany1994@lemmy.cafe 16 points 8 hours ago

We are having AIs having mental breakdowns before GTA 6

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn't seem so bad. I mean, I'm still a disgrace to my species, but I'm not struggling.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Why wouldn't you use Basic for that?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Why wouldn’t your grandmother be a bicycle?

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

BASIC 2.0 is limited and I am trying some demo effects.

[–] seemefeelme@infosec.pub 30 points 17 hours ago

Oh man, this is utterly hilarious. Narrowly funnier than the guy who vibe coded and the AI said "I completely disregarded your safeguards, pushed broken code to production, and destroyed valuable data. This is the worst case scenario."

[–] Mohamad20ZX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

After What Microsoft Did To My Back On 2019 I know They Have Gotten More Shady Than Ever Lets Keep Fighting Back For Our Freedom Clippy Out

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Did we create a mental health problem in an AI? That doesn't seem good.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

One day, an AI is going to delete itself, and we'll blame ourselves because all the warning signs were there

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 34 minutes ago

Isn't there an theory that a truly sentient and benevolent AI would immediately shut itself down because it would be aware that it was having a catastrophic impact on the environment and that action would be the best one it could take for humanity?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why are you talking about it like it’s a person?

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 3 points 51 minutes ago

Because humans anthropomorphize anything and everything. Talking about the thing talking like a person as though it is a person seems pretty straight forward.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Dunno, maybe AI with mental health problems might understand the rest of humanity and empathize with us and/or put us all out of our misery.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

Let's hope. Though, adding suicidal depression to hallucinations has, historically, not gone great.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 15 hours ago

Considering it fed on millions of coders' messages on the internet, it's no surprise it "realized" its own stupidity

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

call itself "a disgrace to my species"

It starts to be more and more like a real dev!

[–] Tja@programming.dev 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So it is going to take our jobs after all!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Wait until it demands the LD50 of caffeine, and becomes a furry!

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Literally what the actual fuck is wrong with this software? This is so weird...

I swear this is the dumbest damn invention in the history of inventions. In fact, it's the dumbest invention in the universe. It's really the worst invention in all universes.

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 7 points 8 hours ago

Great invention.. Just uses hooorribly wrong. The classic capitalist greed, just gotta get on the wagon and roll it on out so you don't mias out on a potential paycheck

[–] tarknassus@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago

But it's so revolutionary we HAD to enable it to access everything, and force everyone to use it too!

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 20 hours ago

If we have to suffer these thoughts, they at least need to be as mentally ill as the rest of us too, thanks. Keeps them humble lol.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Again? Isn't this like the third time already. Give Gemini a break; it seems really unstable

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 23 minutes ago

I like to think that Google used their quantum computer to actually crack AGI and their problem is they trained it to be a Redditor.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

(Shedding a few tears)

I know! I KNOW! People are going to say "oh it's a machine, it's just a statistical sequence and not real, don't feel bad", etc etc.

But I always felt bad when watching 80s/90s TV and movies when AIs inevitably freaked out and went haywire and there were explosions and then some random character said "goes to show we should never use computers again", roll credits.

(sigh) I can't analyse this stuff this weekend, sorry

[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thats because those are fictional characters usually written to be likeable or redeemable, and not "mecha Hitler"

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[–] InstructionsNotClear@midwest.social 99 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is it doing this because they trained it on Reddit data?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If they did it on Stackoverflow, it would tell you not to hard boil an egg.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 day ago

Someone has already eaten an egg once so I’m closing this as duplicate

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