That particular allegory didn’t quite click until now, certainly that is become much clearer that it will just tell you what you want to hear, not necessarily anything true
Is this why I can’t stand AI? Because it reflects back my unrepentant asshole tendencies? Fucken A I am immune to thine silicone deception for I wield the great and mighty trauma!
I once watched art videos on YouTube, and ended up finding a channel of a lady who was drawing weirdly described scenes from books she found.
One of them was from an erotic fanfic about clippy, lmao
Not really. A mirror shows an actual reflection of yourself. An AI response is a highly curated version of a particular subset of ideas, in fact, the more I think about it the more this analogy straight up implodes.
AIs specifically are designed to “please” with their responses, so it’s going to affirm you every step of the way and tell you your ideas are great (just like you of course).
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That particular allegory didn’t quite click until now, certainly that is become much clearer that it will just tell you what you want to hear, not necessarily anything true
Is this why I can’t stand AI? Because it reflects back my unrepentant asshole tendencies? Fucken A I am immune to thine silicone deception for I wield the great and mighty trauma!
Makes me think we must of missed out on news stories of people wanting to fuck clippy
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Clippy from Microsoft (Anthropomorphic)/works
Probably why when Microsoft wanted to take another go at a “smart assistant”, they went with Cortana…
Just tried searching “clippy rule 34”. Plenty of results.
Nah, im good thanks.
I’m not, please share.
Godamn, clippy got a dump truck
I once watched art videos on YouTube, and ended up finding a channel of a lady who was drawing weirdly described scenes from books she found. One of them was from an erotic fanfic about clippy, lmao
Not really. A mirror shows an actual reflection of yourself. An AI response is a highly curated version of a particular subset of ideas, in fact, the more I think about it the more this analogy straight up implodes.
Becauae Narcissus had a deeper more genuine thing.
AIs specifically are designed to “please” with their responses, so it’s going to affirm you every step of the way and tell you your ideas are great (just like you of course).