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I'm very curious to know what kind of adoption Meta's AI features are getting. The idea of anyone wanting to talk to AI persona's in a similar way to how they talk to their friends is completely bizarre to me, but they seem to be pushing it quite hard

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> The idea of anyone wanting to talk to AI persona's in a similar way to how they talk to their friends

You may be overestimating how many people have friends to talk to in the first place.

check out the chatGPT subreddit last weekend for the meltdowns from people who were routed away from gpt-4o to the "safety" version of the model when they tried to discuss controversial topics - they sound like somebody confiscated their best friend.

i think more people are treating an LLM like a friend than you might expect - i was certainly surprised.

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