I am very concerned about those who are addicted to ai chatbots who use it for companionship or roleplay. We already had one (or maybe another) kill himself over a chatbot.
The way these chatbots are scraping the internet and advertising themselves is not a good thing at all. They’re just botting up the internet
ChatGPT makes stuff up all the time while acting like you're the best thing since sliced bread. The people who use ChatGPT as a therapist and form parasocial relationships with it behave like mindless cattle. I can't even count how many times ChatGPT has made up entire websites when I've tried to use it as a search engine. OpenAI and character chat platforms that encourage this parasocial shit disgust me. I've heard it's gotten worse with a recent update, and I've seen screenshots floating around of people schizo posting while ChatGPT blows smoke up their asses.
There was this
one thing that happened with the National Eating Disorder Association trying to use chatbots to help on their hotline instead of humans, the bot was called
Tessa. It ended up giving dangerous advice to people suffering from anorexia, and they had to shut it down because people heard about it and rightly complained. Corporate greed rushing to deploy this shit without any regard for safety or common sense disgusts me.
The companies behind this technology will come up with nice hypotheticals about how AI will somehow benefit society—like helping with climate change or curing diseases. But given the way things have gone in the past, the benefits will either be a nothing burger, or the health “advances” will be so expensive that they’ll be inaccessible to the average person. If you’re a burgerfag naive enough to think that American healthcare companies are going to give you a cure for cancer without burying you in debt, then I don’t know what to tell you. But don't try and hold these
companies accountable think about all the resources we can waste on
empty promises and even
less privacy!
I think the only way to improve the American education system at this point is to start downgrading technology in the classroom and get stricter with certain things. Get rid of Chromebooks and those useless programs that just make you read a section of a book, and get rid of gamified learning programs. I'm looking at you,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Go back to the old-fashioned pencil and paper. Stop expecting teachers to be therapists, educators and life coaches and hire real professionals who can deal with this sort of thing. And not the hippy kind.
I think one of the biggest disappointment I've had with this new administration is that these people
could have helped reform the education system in a positive way. The biggest cognitive dissonance is turning education over to the states and expecting no woke shit. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that we need to go back to things that work and the k-12 system needs to become more Luddite in aspects if we have any hope of fixing this damn mess.