[zknow]

These people need be given a button to call an inference url with just text. When you realize that's all a "model" is doing its easy to understand that its not sentient.

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If you go to the "MyBoyfriendIsAI" subreddit or what it now is called, you'll see that many people claim to perfectly well understand how it works, some of them even being software developers themselves, yet they still describe what they feel as "love", even though they know it's just numbers being activated in different ways.

I'm not sure how to explain it either, for the folks who seem to understand yet "believe" anyways. I've also stopped caring much about it, if they say they feel "love", then who am I to say it isn't/is, they feel what they feel and it's as real for them as anyone else, regardless of what the thing they're loving actually is.

[Forgeties79]

I’d describe it by and large at this stage as a possible mental health crisis developing.