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Listen. I can't speak for everyone else. But for me personally, I have on multiple occasions told chat gpt I feel miserable. It gives some useful or useless information back and that's good enough.

The porn too. Not chat gpt but other models. It lets you write good erotic lit. Erotic illustrations. Then will talk you out of depressive funk.

Those are probably more valuable to society than using LLM's to increase Blackrocks quarterly profits .005%.

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I'm simply not convinced it's net beneficial to approach these situations by interacting with a robotic mimic. Case in point, the ego stroking aspect of the last generation was clearly important, or else people would have easily embraced gpt5. Talking with a bot makes you feel better but does it really address the root problems in the real world that cause these emotions? Does it set one up for success, or is it a temporary assuagement until the cycle comes back around (perhaps more severely). Reminds me of the large cohort who uses things like self-help books because it feels better.

I'm imagining society in which many millions of people is constantly interacting with robots to tweak their emotional state. I'm not sure that that's adding value to society or creating a better human society.

I think I might value a society where there are fewer people like this

Sounds genocidal.

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