#NotTheOnion
Just to be clear on that one.

Pathetic bunch of lads and gals.

People have been falling in love with scammers for as long as there have been people.

Be there for your loved ones.

.. dude.

Ikr, self host for christs sake!

The people you are responding to don’t hang around here.

I’ve never picked up on a personality from an LLM this strongly. I can’t tell if it’s active resistance or evidence I’m somewhere on the spectrum.

AI lovers ought to go touch grass

If only it were that easy.

Most third places have either disappeared, or been replaced with ones that you can only really enjoy if you're able to spend money every time you go there (e.g. bars, theaters, cafes, clubs, etc).

Many small towns are only getting smaller, leaving people that still live in them with less and less people to talk to.

Economic circumstances are consistently getting worse across the board, meaning people are spending more time at work just to stay alive, rather than being able to easily arrange to spend time somewhere with people.

It's not like it's impossible, obviously, but the state of the world is actively discouraging prosocial behavior through both cost and just circumstance.

Well humans made me realize that Facebook's main reason for being awful was that more people joined... Same with reddit... More normal people joined...

Not a big user of AI but a suck up chat bot sounds like pain to interact with

THX-1138

Gotta watch this film again.

Like saying goodbye to a crazy neighbor you know.

Nah I’m good thanks. I don’t even want to talk to an AI.

Now going outside and befriending some small creature, or hugging a few trees? That sounds nice.

Lol. Reminds me of a dialogue chain in Fallout 3 or 4 where one of the Brotherhood dudes finds out he's a synth, so you kill him. Later ask his buddy if he misses him, and the dude says something like "That's like missing a toaster. We don't have time to mourn lost equipment."

It's not just who's on there. It's also how the platforms promote content into your feed. When I was on Facebook in 2008 the friend feed was just that. Just people I mutually knew IRL posting. Facebook hadn't yet figured out how to really monetize it. Advertisers were not as on it. SEO wasn't really a thing yet.

Fast-forward 5-6 years and it really grew into an all-encompassing thing. Yeah, more people were on it, but so were the marketable opportunities. So were the suggested posts. So were all the news organizations, the grifters, the advertisers... and Facebook's role in all of that is to promote the most outrageous and engaging content to you to keep you on the site longer than ever before. They have it down to a science.

That's raises the question why it was posted here

Nah, think of it this way:

We are not in that group. Someone passing by observed that group, found surprising things going on, and then they posted a story to tell our group all about it.

That’s not the only way to slice it, but, it’s the one I was working under with my original comment.

I think it depends on how you engage with it. I work with some younger people who are active AI users, and they call chatgpt "he" or "she" and prompt it like a conversation with a person. Their responses are a lot more conversational vs mine which are more direct.