From a friend to who I linked this post (reshared with permission):
I have a friend who just recently learned about ChatGPT (we showed it to her for LARP generation purposes :D) and she got really excited over it, having never played with any AI generation tools before. I send this post to her kinda jokingly “warning” her not to get too immersed.
She told me that during the last weeks ChatGPT has become a sort of a “member” of their group of friends, people are speaking about it as if was a human person, saying things like “yeah I talked about this with ChatGPT and it said”, talking to it while eating (in the same table with other people), wishing it good night etc. I asked what people talking about with it and apparently many seem to have to ongoing chats, one for work (emails, programming etc) and one for random free time talk.
She said at least one addictive thing about it is the same thing mentioned in the post, that it never gets tired talking to you and is always supportive.
Huh. ChatGPT does nothing for me on a social/emotional level, and I love a good conversation. I just can’t escape the sense that I’m fundamentally controlling both sides of the interaction. It’s just pixels on a screen to me. I don’t feel that way about chatting on forums like this one—just specifically about using chat bots like ChatGPT.
I have found it useful for creative science writing—getting it to describe the process of DNA replication in a vivid yet mechanistically accurate way, for example. But again, it feels like a machine that I am using than a person I am relating to.
The way I interpret your post is that chatbots, like many things, can become an addiction/obsession/consuming hobby once you get into it. And you seem to think it is an unhealthy one, at least for you. That seems reasonable to me. That’s how I feel about certain video games, and it’s why I just simply cannot play them.
From a friend to who I linked this post (reshared with permission):
Huh. ChatGPT does nothing for me on a social/emotional level, and I love a good conversation. I just can’t escape the sense that I’m fundamentally controlling both sides of the interaction. It’s just pixels on a screen to me. I don’t feel that way about chatting on forums like this one—just specifically about using chat bots like ChatGPT.
I have found it useful for creative science writing—getting it to describe the process of DNA replication in a vivid yet mechanistically accurate way, for example. But again, it feels like a machine that I am using than a person I am relating to.
Exactly where I was at Stage 1 (might never progress further than that for you, and I hope it doesn’t)
ChatGPT’s default personality is really terrible and annoying, not someone I would want to casually talk to
The way I interpret your post is that chatbots, like many things, can become an addiction/obsession/consuming hobby once you get into it. And you seem to think it is an unhealthy one, at least for you. That seems reasonable to me. That’s how I feel about certain video games, and it’s why I just simply cannot play them.