I could be being daft here but I thought USAID was a propaganda and infiltration tactic. Like a way for the USA to put pressure on other countries.

A techbro? Do you think I work for some big company? I am a PhD student motherfucker.

well that settles it then! you’re apparently such an authority.

I am someone who is paid to research uses and abuses of AI and LLMs in a specific field. So compared to randos on the internet like you, yeah I could be considered an authority. Chances are though you don’t actually care about any of this. You just want an excuse to hate on something you don’t like and don’t understand and blame it for already well established problems. How about instead you actually take some responsibility for the state of your fellow human beings and do something helpful instead of being a Luddite.

I don’t trust OpenAI and try to avoid using them. That being said they have always been one of the more careful ones regarding safety and alignment.

I also don’t need you or openai to tell me that hallucinations are inevitable. Here have a read of this:

Title: Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models, Author: Xu et al., Date: 2025-02-13, url: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

Regarding resource usage: this is why open weights models like those made by the Chinese labs or mistral in Europe are better. Much more efficient and frankly more innovative than whatever OpenAI is doing.

Ultimately though you can’t just blame LLMs for people committing suicide. It’s a lazy excuse to avoid addressing real problems like how treats neurodivergent people. The same problems that lead to radicalization including incels and neo nazis. These have all been happening before LLM chatbots took off.

I am sure the terminal IDEs are great. I did used to play around with vim myself, and still use it for editing config files. I have had some success with Jet Brains as well. It’s a solid product.

I don’t really have the energy it takes to configure and learn all the stuff that’s needed for a terminal only setup these days. I guess I am just not as discerning as you are. I might try a ready made solution like LazyVim.

The 50s? Did LLMs exist in the 50s?

This is why safety mechanisms are being put in place, and AIs are being programmed that act less like sycophants.

So far there have been about two instances of this happening from two different companies. Already there is a push for better safety by these companies and AIs that act less like sycophants. So this isn’t the huge issue you are making it out to be. Unless you have more reports of this happening?

Ultimately crazy people gonna be crazy. If most humans are as you say then we have a more serious problem than anything an AI has done.

Yeah pretty much. Wait until you hear about termux, screen, or byobu.

See you around.

In neovim you can have a terminal inside a buffer. So you can have a terminal and your code open side by side like you would in a modern IDE, or emacs for that matter.

I am not going to argue if it is better or worse than vim. I actually use both; they both have strengths and weaknesses imo. I use them for different tasks. I will say though that VSCode is extremely popular for programming and for good reasons. It’s a good product, one of the best things Microsoft make.

Out of interest: why vim and not neovim?

VSCode

What graph? What are you talking about now?

There are to my knowledge two instances of this happening. One involving openai the other involving character.ai. Only one of these involved an autistic person. Unless you know of more?

I also think it’s too soon to blame the AI here. Suicide rates in autistic people are ridiculously high. Something like 70% of autistic people experience suicidal ideation. No one really cared about this before AI. It’s almost like we are being used as a moral argument once again. It’s like think of the children but for disabled people.

I think they were talking specifically about character.ai and one particular instance that involved an autistic person.

OpenAI and character.ai are two different things. I believe character.ai uses there own model, but I could be wrong.

Are there records of this happening? Did someone prompt it into doing this?

What has happened exactly?

Yeah it’s a shitshow. Honestly makes me glad I don’t have kids. I don’t want to think about the ridiculous opinions I might collect just by being a parent. It’s like how parents who used to sniff lines and shag 9s suddenly want their teenagers to be celibate and not even touch cannabis. It’s honestly so bizarre. Like if having kids makes you this crazy you probably shouldn’t have them.

Subs are ID gated because of laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. Yes I had to contact my MP about that. The government apparently care more about concerned moms than they do about the opinion of actual technical people or freedom of speech.

If it naturally didn’t work then why did the USA have to intervene so many times to stop it from working? Most of the “failed” communist regimes failed at least in part because of USA intervention. The USSR, Cuba, Chile, China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos have all had some intervention from the USA.

Socialism is also not an economic or political system but a broad category of systems. Saying socialism has always failed would be like saying that fungi have always failed.