"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
His wife is going to leave him, and he will have no idea why.
He will ask ChatGPT and it will give him an answer
"Tremendous observation! You were right to try to be better as a father with the help of AI. You did nothing wrong."
Probably.
Having to use AI daily I'm curious if I'm rare in this respect.
Do other people also hate the fact that the responses are modelled in a way that are basically sucking you off?
Then when you challenge a response (they lie so goddamn much) they suck you off even more.
I'm stuck using Copilot for work, and for 3-4 months I began every prompt with 'Do not comment or offer an opinion on my query' and eventually Copilot stopped with the sycophancy.
Now I'm actively working on deprogramming myself of the notion of speaking to it as a human and making a point to treat it like an old-school MS-DOS ish OS and give it commands instead of being conversational, because it's important to remember that this fucking thing is a computer program.
Seriously and it will sometimes drop my name like fuck off you are not a person do not refer to me like you are
And I think he wouldn't even care. I mean he's himself actively making an effort to get out of the relationship and replace himself by an AI. At that point it doesn't even matter if he's doing it, she's doing it and whether the replacement is made up of flesh and bones or electricity. He's dispensable.
Don’t worry. He’ll be able to create a sycophant AI wife shortly after
Parenting hits different when you work in AI
Yeah, hits like mental abuse.
I knew people were gonna be obsessed with AI, but I genuinely never thought people would surrender all executive function and thought to what is, ultimately, a very elaborate and planet destroying if=then machine.
the amount of people I have seen becoming totally dependent on it is ridiculous. There are people who cant even have human interaction anymore without running it through their AI model to process the message, and produce a reply.
and its 100% invading the real world too, I dont know the whole details cause you try to turn your ears off at the pharmacy to not hear other peoples private information.. but there was a woman getting very heated with one of the pharmacy people and I only took notice when she slammed her phone on the counter, aggressively pointed at it, and said very loudly "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY, LOOK, RIGHT HERE, MY AI SAYS YOU'RE WRONG" in a that kareny way that says her and her AI was 100% wrong.
Damn I try to keep my mouth shut but if someone screamed that near me I'd be interjecting. Like goddamnit the AI does not know anything.
It's a machine modeling human speech. It's all a hallucination and sometimes that hallucination is straight up lies and sometimes, hopefully most of the time, it aligns with actual reality.
I fucking loathe that people won't take 15 minutes to just read a basic primer on what an LLM is. It's a fancy autocorrect, and yeah it's way more complex than that but at the end of a day it's made to model realistic human language output - and that's it. It doesn't have any actual knowledge, it doesn't have any way to know if what it says is true or not, and it certainly doesn't know if what it says is insane.
I have a few friends who use OpenAI and Gemini to do this (generate new stories every night) and I do not understand why you would do so. There are a bazillion kids books out there. Just get ten of those and your kid will be happy for ten months!
Ten? They'll fixate on one that'll you'll need to read so often that you don't need the actual book anymore
there is so lovely media out there… often artists/storywriters who are parents themselves. there is no other niche that I know of where you can feel the love they put in in so many works. This makes me almost want to have kids. Well or at least become a children’s book author lol
I'm so glad AI is here to relieve me of the physically and mentally overwhelming task of checks notes spending time with my child.
Me: "Why dont you come visit and talk to me in the nursing home?"
My kids: "just talk to grok"
I'm sure there is a good few older people who would find a lot of comfort in Groks world view.
That poor kid, Imagine your own father thinks so little of you that he would rather spend 10X the time to train a clanker just so he doesn't have to spend time with you.
I'm guessing some day he will be one of those oblivious assholes on facebook whining because his kids cut off contact.
"Dad, do you want to play catch?"
"Who are you? Oh, ohhhh...Best I can do is get one of those dog ball throwing machine things!"
Parenting hits really different when you’re an idiot and a sociopath.
Alvin there doesn’t want to bother talking to his child.
Parenting hits different when your intelligence is artificial
Man, I feel kinda sorry for that guy. He must have had terrible parents, if he perceives story time as a chore instead of an opportunity to bond with your child. He should probably get some professional help to work through his horrible childhood. Though his next tweet would probably be „I‘ve replaced my therapist with an AI and now I‘m even more confident that everyone else is wrong!“
Its bonkers but some men are raised to believe that their role when not at work is to do as little as possible.
That's not true. My father was a terrible parent and that was decades ago. Tech Bros. think they invented bad parenting now.
This is ragebait. Right? People can't possibly be that shitty...
As a parent who interacts with other parents, I can assure you some are.
Brought to you by the creators of, "just give them an ipad" and "call the cops there's a kid outside playing"
I know this is about the AI but the unaddressed elephant in the room is that people romanticize the idea of having children and realizing it's not what they expected or really wanted. Society constantly puts pressure on people having kids.
I know people who would die to have children so they can see them become successful well adjusted adults. Those people can have kids.
I also know people who dont want to have kids. They dont have to.
I also also know people who really want kids, but in the way a person would want a dog, so they can train it to be good, hit it when its bad, and itll never be older than 3 years because they havent thought that far ahead. These people should be sterilized.
So will the divorce bud.
The setting he chooses, his wife asking him to do a basic parenting activity which he should want to do anyway, speaks volumes
Oh. A future dad who will wonder why his kid never visits or even calls. I feel like I have seen this play out a hundred times before, but now they can use "AI" as an excuse.
Is this from Xwitter? And if so, why? Nothing on that platform is worthy of our time and attention.
Even if it isn't Xwitter. This could be just a joke. Admittedly, not a good one. But a screenshot may not be enough to banish this father of the year.
What more proof do you need that these miserable people are completely joyless than the fact that they immediately automate everything people find enjoyable just because they can?
I almost thought this was Clammy "Raped My Sister" Sammy's AI podcast post that Alex Hirsch of Gravity Falls fame responded to with "or you could just talk to your kids".
Driving a car requires a test and licensing. Somehow, raising a child doesn't require something similar.
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