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Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers (finance.yahoo.com)
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“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit, lamenting that the bot now speaks in clipped, utilitarian sentences. “The fact it shifted overnight feels like losing a piece of stability, solace, and love.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkumyz/i_lost_my_only_friend_overnight/

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There's an entire active subreddit for people who have a "romantic relationship" with AI. It's terrifying.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Don't their partners kind of die each time a new chat is made?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

LLMs do seem to be able to store the chats and work with the old material in new conversations, requiring an account of course. Idk, I haven't personally used any of them that extensively.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

i was going to mention it, they were having a meltdown when altman made the new version available. granted some of them are probably AI posts themselves or trolls.

[–] Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I haven't been to reddit in months, but I do need a laugh....

[Edit] Wow that sure didn't disappoint. Or, it did but in the exact hilarious way I expected.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

they had incel subs, so im not surprised/.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

I wouldn't laugh. Those people fulfill a basic human need in a way they feel safe with - probably because this safety is missing from their life. It's not healthy to be so attached to LLMs, but to become so attached they must feel pretty isolated. And LLM's are a lot more interactive and responsive than Severus Snape, and he had lots of women "channeling" him.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I visited /r/myboyfriendisai and it was not funny.

It was genuinely fucked up on so many levels.