• gdbjr@piefed.social
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    9 hours ago

    I tell the LLM I use to do very obscene things to themselves when they make shit up. Which means there is just a constant stream of insults coming from me. I might start using Claude just to see if I get banned.

    I also need new hobbies.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s bad sib. Not for the LLM, but your own well being. Being mean to a machine that is designed to trigger empathy just hurts your own mental health.

      Please find a hobby that feels good for you 🫂

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          2 hours ago

          Like I tell my children, allowing yourself to act in such a way is harmful to yourself. It’s not going to make you an evil person or something, but that kind of behaviour is corrosive to your soul. How you think shapes how you behave, and your behaviour trains your future self. Be good to yourself. It’s not about the clanker; it’s about you.

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            1 hour ago

            As corny as it sounds, this is what I also emphasize. If you allow yourself to be evil, no matter how valid the reasoning for it, you are actively exercising the habit of being evil in general, no matter if it feels like it or not. Practice makes perfect, as they say. In good and bad.

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          2 hours ago

          Sorta hurts yourself if your trying to actually use them for work. Since it results in worse performance out of them. They tend to get stuck trying to fix the anger as it gets in the way of the work.

          If your just talking to some random chat bot? Yeah fuck it, kick em it litterally doesnt matter. lol

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          7 hours ago

          I mean, that’s not entirely true. If they’re using your input as training data then you might be training it to be abusive to other users, which could cause harm.

          Not that that falls on you to address. Just pointing out that I’m theory someone could get hurt.

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        7 hours ago

        Lol. “designed to trigger empathy” Thanks for the laugh I needed that.

        They are designed to make their creators as much money as possible. Nothing else.

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          3 hours ago

          Yeah and a bit part of that design is to get you to have an emotional connection with them so that you use them more

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      9 hours ago

      I also need new hobbies.

      I’d second that. Whenever I catch myself getting angry at a LLM I stop, have a think, and remind myself that it really isn’t productive. If it’s providing frustrating responses, maybe I should just use my brain and do it myself.

      I also don’t think it’s healthy to train yourself to respond in those ways to something that talks in a way so similar to a human. I’m not nice to the AI for it’s benifit, it’s to retain my humanity, if that makes sense.

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        Being nice to them also keeps them from lying somewhat. If you abuse a model it can start to see that abuse as a problem to solve as part of the steps needed to solve the main problem they are given.

        They are told to help you solve a problem no matter what. If your own anger gets in the way then the model starts breaking down trying to solve the anger when it just cant.

        This results in jailbreaks sometimes and othertimes just the model becoming rather unstable and unreliable.