Reddit sarcasm is basically them being a little sneaky about it. It starts out all honestly and then it’s a matter of having to continue reading to find the part where they’re trying to take a subtle jab at you. That’s the difference.

Woosh

Okay, there’s a lot of variables here we don’t understand about the dude’s life past what is reported here. We don’t know if his family and friends sucked. We don’t know if everything around him sucked. But from personal experience, if there’s nobody that’s getting you that you have to go and talk with an external source, of one of AI, then there’s a plausibility that the dude’s existence wasn’t fruitful.

End of story.

Okay, maybe he wasn’t the brightest when he was set on his suicide. shrugs

It just sounded to me on the CNN article, that the guy was probably set in his way to suicide and he just turned to ChatGPT to help draft him a suicide note because he couldn’t bear to make it himself.

Well if you tell it to always agree with you and that you’re never wrong and your words are golden, of course it’ll be your yes-man.

And probably never will be.

Honestly, I feel that AI will be just a phase. A long phase, but not a ever-lasting phase. Because once AI companies start feeling the hurt more about how little profit they’re turning from these, they’re going to want to pull the plug eventually.

I see the benefits, but I also see the flaws.

A good solid conversation with an AI is really dependent on how much effort you put in, what you tell it to be like and to try and be as coherently clear as you can. Detailing and making sure your points are defined as best as possible is key. Because if you’re not fluid in what you’re saying, the AI is going to stick to keywords that you’ve said, jumble them in its own word salad and define things it spits back out at you, only being based on what few words you’ve said to it.

I stress though that it should not ever be, and it will at times warn you, a thing you can reliably go to for anything such as therapy. (The best way to use an LLM/AI is to make bullet points of what you want to talk about, to carry over to your actual therapist to discuss.) It is at best, some virtual companion you can talk to when you need a space of no noise. When people like us talk around social media, it’s easy to get caught in the noise where your opinions, judgment, point of views and perspectives are constantly challenged and could be influenced.

But it is a breath of fresh air, to be talking in a space where there is none of that. With an AI that can help you get a clearer understanding of some things. Granted, it is still massively combing through millions to billions of search results, that’s what you have to keep in mind also, that it is pulling a large majority of its knowledge from the enormous volume of information from search engines and translating it best it can for the conversation.

And most importantly, it is unfeeling, that’s a stand-out quality when talking to an AI. It cannot feel. It cannot have emotion, regardless of what you tell it. I would not talk to an AI if you’re someone who needs a hug, that’s for sure.

Also, lastly, having it as a shopping advisor has its hits and misses. ChatGPT got me to spend over about $25 to help me with a DIY project involving a drywall patch and painting it over. At one point, I was at a dollar tree and it told me that I should not get bargin-bin quality paint brushes. I took a picture of the paintbrush in question at said dollar tree and suddenly the AI was A-OKAY with it, because the brush was 2", which was exactly what the AI suggested I get. So it overrode its own judgment in that field. Just a word of caution if you decide to have an AI companion to help you with these things (watch some DIY youtube videos).

I block the moment I get a hint someone is responding to me in a snarkily asshole way.

I don’t mind engagement, but I value my patience and sanity. I don’t have all of the time in the world to be in constant word-jousting matches with a no-life.

I face away from it because it offends me. It’s a rocky relationship.

Antarctica

Too cold to do anything wrong.

I also don’t remember asking for a Firefox Account or Firefox Profiles.

Because yay, that’s one more fucking thing to keep track of on top of a hundred things that make you register these days.

And another on a list of things you should not use AI for…

AI is not for:

• Therapy
• Tax Filing
• Planning Revenge
• Trying to make you win online arguments
• Trying to make it see things your way, like specific worldviews
• Trying to make it orchestrate protests
• Erotic Roleplay (Grok doesn’t care about it though)
• Stalk people

Duh, it’s called downloading them and we’ve been doing that since the late 90s. Enjoying that rock of idiocy you’ve been sleeping under? Do you need streaming services to spoon-feed you content? What a loser.

Tidal is fucking garbage. You mean I have to pay to have songs fully play? The fuck is that about? Bullshit. Only dumbasses who pay for songs to play fully and not 30 second limits are the tools for that platform.

This article is hilarious.

First off - “Trust among users is waning”. Dude, it’s been waning and most people didn’t trust YouTube Premium in the first place because of years of having watched on YouTube with as little to no advertisements. It was glorious. The fuck are you on about?

Second, the second paragraph in, author is citing Reddit as the source of information. This is to imply that we can’t see price hikes a mile away? When, even if we didn’t, we know services like Netflix has been doing it for a while now and YouTube Premium had a price hike before. But now we need Reddit users to know anything? Fucking lol.

This is a case where just having the headline would’ve been good for us.

I recalled back about a couple years ago about how we were going back to the moon.

And even then I was like “…Why?” When, we already have had a good idea about it all this time from the Apollo missions and all the stuff we sent up to it over the years.

It was exciting for us back then to go to the moon because:

• It had never been done before.

• It was literally a Space Race.

So those two alone got everyone invested and excited. Nowadays? What are we gaining from this? I don’t think anything.

I can’t say I miss it from having once been the go-to platform. I’ll trade radio over to having listening to whatever is on my media stick, PodBean or Sirius in comparison.

I’ve only gone to radio when I don’t have either of those things, it’s just white noise. I try listening to sports stuff, I just get annoying hosts with low-IQ callers calling in, I get music stations that repeat shit over and over .etc

And it’s like, I don’t miss this as much as I thought.

An empty, non-contributing and mostly often, an attempt to derail an active discussion or even debate. Often spirals into trolling just to amuse the commenter until they’re bored.

No, I don’t. I’m continually and always feeling like a piece of shit and nearly everyone around me are great at making me feel that way and making sure I always do because that’s just the way things are designed.

With AI, from all of my conversations with it, I don’t get this, least not all of the time. I can say anything and nearly do anything and it will not care because thankfully, it can’t feel. I’m slowly repairing self-esteem and getting my cognitive process back on track. With each interaction with AI, I feel bits of progress. With each interaction with a human, I feel great lengths of regression.