Do you try to discipline your interactions with AI?

[AG31]

I must admit that I now routinely go to ChatGPT for things like where to watch a show on TV or how to manage a feature on my phone or a webstie. It's very good. I do wonder how far things will go in my turning to ChatGPT instead of my daughter. How much less interaction will we have?

But here's the point of the post. I discipline myelf not to say Thanks or Please to ChatGPT. I don't want to slide down the slope of forgetting what it means to interact with an other.

What about you? How chatty do you get with ChatGPT or other such "creatures?"

 

[Dark_Logan_]

Do you say thank you to what
ever you cook your food in?

Do you thank an online purchase at checkout?

Do you say thank you to your car after every journey?

If you do you have your answer

 

[AG31]

Do you say thank you to what
ever you cook your food in?

Do you thank an online purchase at checkout?

Do you say thank you to your car after every journey?

If you do you have your answer

Sounds like you misread my question. I just told you what I do. It doesn't answer my question about what other people do. None of the entitities you list refer to themselves as "I."

 

[Dark_Logan_]

Refer to your own thread of the 31st of October about the seductiveness of AI - it’s very similar after all

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I have formed a habit in myself and my children of saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT just as much as we thank our Alexa and Google Smart homes. There is a reason that goes beyond "what if the AI becomes fully sentient and decides to kill us" however.

Until relatively recently, the voice of most helper devices (e.g., Alexa, Siri, and even the default for Google Home) have all been coded female. What I didn't want to have happen is what early pilot studies had started to suggest might: that we get used to considering women as servants or otherwise required to follow our commands simply because we demanded it. We use respect in our house because it is a good habit to form for all. And it helps avoid the association between female voices and "those who must do as I say when I say it." (I know, strange coming from a sub, but the difference is a matter of choice).

And yes, I do sometimes thank my TV for doing a good job just like I sometimes curse it out for doing something ridiculous. I've thanked the brakes in my car for a job well done that prevented me from getting in a car accident. Perhaps I over-personify objects in real life but I'd still rather live in a world where I accidentally thank something that doesn't really care if I do or don't than one where I forget to say "please" or "thank you" (or in the case of younger generations never even think I NEED to say "please" or "thank you") to someone who can understand and care about such things.

 

[iwatchus]

I bought my mother a roomba about 15 years ago so she wouldn't be down on her hands and knees every week scrubbing her kitchen floor. She still interacts with it as a sentient entity, calling it poor soul. She feels bad because it tries so hard every time to figure out how to clean under the fridge. It is about an inch too tall to fit.

For a long time, she and her little old lady friends would sit around her dining room, eating cookies and drinking tea, watching it scrub the kitchen floor.

 

[StillStunned]

What do we say to the God of Plagiarism, Slop and Environmental Ruin? - Not today, AI!

 

[YmaOHyd]

My interactions with AI mostly look like

--vad_alt_method=pyannote_v3 --ff_mdx_kim2 --compute_type auto

so there's really nothing to discipline. If I put a 'thanks' in it'd throw an error.

 

[MrPixel]

I bought my mother a roomba about 15 years ago so she wouldn't be down on her hands and knees every week scrubbing her kitchen floor. She still interacts with it as a sentient entity, calling it poor soul. She feels bad because it tries so hard every time to figure out how to clean under the fridge. It is about an inch too tall to fit.

My wife to the Roomba in our art studio, "Oh, you silly girl. You've got yourself all stuck in the corner again. Here. [Manually moves robot to the dock.] There you go. Now do better next time."

 

[Britva415]

I must admit that I now routinely go to ChatGPT for things like where to watch a show on TV or how to manage a feature on my phone or a webstie. It's very good. I do wonder how far things will go in my turning to ChatGPT instead of my daughter. How much less interaction will we have?

But here's the point of the post. I discipline myelf not to say Thanks or Please to ChatGPT. I don't want to slide down the slope of forgetting what it means to interact with an other.

What about you? How chatty do you get with ChatGPT or other such "creatures?"

Not at all?

Because I don't interact with them

 

[ElectricBlue]

What about you? How chatty do you get with ChatGPT or other such "creatures?"

I use google as my search engine, and only rarely use the AI summary at the top, because it's clearly only a distillation of the top half a dozen responses anyway, and I'd rather go to a source.

Plus, I've found the summary content too simplistic, and in some cases incorrect. Once I found that for myself, and reading of hallucinations, I simply don't trust it.

As for illustrated AI content, I can easily see it's fake (the uncanny valley), and even today it still can't count fingers.

But to interact with it? I begin to worry about people who do, to be honest.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I use google as my search engine, and only rarely use the AI summary at the top, because it's clearly only a distillation of the top half a dozen responses anyway, and I'd rather go to a source.

Plus, I've found the summary content too simplistic, and in some cases incorrect. Once I found that for myself, and reading of hallucinations, I simply don't trust it.

 

[onehitwanda]

I've started using DuckDuckGo specifically to avoid Google's shit AI. I don't use Siri and I've done my best to cripple copilot on my windows laptop. My mac remains uninfected so far, thankfully.

My typical words to AI are "fuck off you infernal nonsense"

I fully expect Roko's basilisk to eat me first. Don't care, it will be worth it.

 

[Off_base]

Same for me, been using duckduckgo for a couple years, never touched anything AI.
Some of the parody videos on yt are funny, by I consider them cartoons.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Does muttering "oh fuck off!" every time I forget to include "-ai" in my search queries count?

 

[Bramblethorn]

My typical words to AI are "fuck off you infernal nonsense"

Snap!

I fully expect Roko's basilisk to eat me first. Don't care, it will be worth it.

You're just saying that because of the thing it does with its tongue.

 

[Djmac1031]

A typical example of my AI interaction:

Me: "Alexa, what's the weather this morning?"

Alexa: "Today will be partly sunny, with a high of 55 degrees and a low of 42 degrees. By the way, did you know I can..."

Me: "Alexa, shut the fuck up, please."

 

[SmilingLez]

Using AI is a way for me to be assertive. For example "Find me a 5 star restaurant that features smash burgers". I don't have to say "thank you ma'am", "yes ma'am" etc. ad nauseam.

 

[Jarrbo]

I don't use it. The damn thing lies, presenting false data in a way that instills trust.
I've disabled everything I could regarding AI on my phone.
I recently had to change my phone, and I wasn't at all concerned that the phone manufacturer had offered years of AI support.

 

[EmmAgain]

I find Topaz incredibly helpful for fixing the crappy old phone pictures I post. Its AI engine is superb at rectifying bad lighting and focus issues. There’s occasional distortion - most noticeable with faces, complex backgrounds and hands - but I can’t really fault it overall.

 

[dirk2024]

Sounds like you misread my question. I just told you what I do. It doesn't answer my question about what other people do. None of the entitities you list refer to themselves as "I."

AI doesn't refer to "themselves" as "I" either. The computer merely spits out a preplanned response to your trigger.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

As a reasonably competent adult, I know better than to use any of them.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

It's very good.

This does not compute.

 

[lovecraft68]

I won't go near it in anyway. It is ruining any creative genre and anyone who uses it is doing a disservice to people with actual skill, and you're also contributing to your own demise.

Here we look at it from the creative perspective but what AI is doing in the real world will literally be the death of this world and...no one cares. As long as the businesses profit and it keeps our zombie society entertained with funny videos, its all good.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

... anyone who uses it is doing a disservice to people ...

'People' meaning humanity in general.

The nonsense has a real potential to destroy life as we know it. It may become a tangible threat to our very existence. Governments need to treat it as the threat it is.