[Forgeties79]

> Affirmations at the start of messages. ("That's a great idea!") With a brief pause when 5 launched. But it's back and worse than ever now.

What a great point! I also can’t stand it. I get it’s basically a meme to point it out - even South Park has mocked it - but I just cannot stand it.

In all seriousness it’s so annoying. It is a tool, not my friend, and considering we are already coming from a place of skepticism with many of the responses, buttering me up does not do anything but make me even more skeptical and trust it less. I don’t want to be told how smart I am or how much a machine “empathizes” with my problem. I want it to give me a solution that I can easily verify, that’s it.

Stop wasting my tokens and time with fake friendship!

[SoftTalker]

Drives me nuts too. All the stuff like "OK let me do..." Or "I agree ..." stop talking like a person.

I want the star trek experience. The computer just says "working" and then gives you the answer without any chit-chat. And it doesn't refer to itself as if it's a person.

What we have now is Hal 9000 before it went insane.

[cyanydeez]

Guys. It's basically because among the all well researched data, the amount of garbage is infinitely more.

If AI wants to be useful (it's not going to atm), real people need to cull all the banalities that facebook, reddit & forums have generated.

Because what you're noticing is things we typically elide over in discussions with actual humans.

[Forgeties79]

It is far more polite than any social media platform or forum I’ve ever seen lol

[vintermann]

Yeah, and earlier incarnations too... I remember AI dungeon used to cuss people out and even "leave the chat" when people acted annoying.

[diamond559]

Hal was completely competent, until it wasn't... This is like Hal .9 beta mode.

[layer8]

Setting ChatGPT personality to “Robot” pretty much does that for me.

[lazide]

Meanwhile, 90% of the population is asking it to write love letters for their bf’s/gf’s

[Forgeties79]

Man it is truly difficult to overstate all the behavioral health issues that have been emerging.

[Ferret7446]

These are just symptoms and not the cause.

[Forgeties79]

This comes across as an unnecessary oversimplification in service of handwaving away a valid concern about AI and its already-observed, expanding impact on our society. At the very least you should explain what you mean exactly.

Alcoholism can also be a symptom of a larger issue. Should we not at least discuss alcohol’s effects and what access looks like when deciding the solution?

[shagie]

A modern Cyrano de Bergerai.

[furyofantares]

> Stop wasting my tokens and time with fake friendship!

They could hide it so that it doesn't annoy you, but I think it's not a waste of tokens. It's there so the tokens that follow are more likely to align with what you asked for. It's harder for it to then say "This is a lot of work, we'll just do a placeholder for now" or give otherwise "lazy" responses, or to continue saying a wrong thing that you've corrected it about.

I bet it also probably makes it more likely to gaslight you when you're asking something it's just not capable of, though.