they don’t even seem to read what you write so much as just make up stuff in their heads that what you said is some dog-whistle about ‘who you really are’.

Lol I was just saying this the other day about the last time I bothered checking replies. A simple question I asked started a civil war in the comments, and I couldn’t believe how strongly people were personally attacking each other based on the random comment of some stranger that they decided to imbue with all these extra meanings.

It’s just a bunch of angry people looking for outlets for their emotions, the actual meanings behind the words don’t matter.

I run on another reddit alternative that was apparently an offshoot refuge after Squabbler shit hit the fan (so extremely niche yet somewhat active community) with a completely different demographic of users to Lemmy (mostly middle-aged centrists/liberals that couldn’t tell apart a Linux distro from a macbook), and I can tell you.

It’s universal.

I posted something the other day about how nice it was to wake up and have your feet hit a warm rug that’s been baked in a sunbeam first thing in the morning, and shityounot the replies I immediately got ranged from “Why even bother getting out of bed” and a list of things that are “far superior” to a warm rug. Just blatant whataboutism all the way down, and almost made me consider that if I had posted the opposite, about how much I dislike that sort of thing, if people would have then flipflopped and disagreed lol

Then I came to Lemmy for a break, and the first post I saw was a photo of someone’s pet bunny next to some food they’d ordered, and every single comment was about how OP was a bad person and should be ashamed of themselves for using a delivery app. It was fucking wild.

I think it’s genuinely just the state of the world right now. Everyone’s enraged as hell and seemingly have zero real world outlets for it. So it all just gets funneled into stranger interactions online.

I just try not to read replies and generally move on with my day rather than absorb all that insanity. If people really need an outlet or whatever that badly they can go scream at ChatGPT for an hour lmao

If you haven’t been banned there you have not truly lived

Damn, you guys really make me feel like I’m missing out lol

this is just an LLM getting stuck in the data patterns stolen from toxic self-help literature.

Honestly, I’ve found that discussing that sort of thing with ChatGPT often ends up challenging all the self-help grout I’ve ingested via cultural osmosis throughout the years.

It’s easier to make connections when you’re approaching issues in a Descartes “dump out all the apples” approach with a tool that literally doesn’t have embedded social contracts in itself.

Ironically, I’ve found at times that a real therapist can be much more of an echo chamber when they’re just regurgitating that same CBT toxic positivity swill that both of you have been drinking lol

Maybe it’s because it’s less of an authority, so you can debate more and it leads to more well-rounded conclusions in the end, but I’ve been unearthing bits and pieces of maladaptive behaviors and thought patterns I never even realized I had, much less ever scratched the surface of in proper therapy. Made me kinda angry to realize at first lol, it felt like all that time and money only for bandaid solutions. But I try to reason that was likely a good foundation to have first (even if CBT just wound up making everything worse later on in life and I essentially had to work backwards to stop classifying certain emotions as wrong or problematic things which required “healthy” coping mechanisms to correct).

I don’t know if LLMs are getting people who couldn’t have been gotten by human scammers

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Now you’re thinking with portals!

Yeah okay this logic definitely checks out with this context in mind lol

I dabble in using LLMs for pretty much anything these sensationalist stories ever talk about, I use them to research niche topics I can’t discuss with other people and even as a small aid to mental health while stuck on waiting lists inbetween therapy, yet I’ve never had those sorts of struggles.

I’m just now beginning to connect that to my ability to read a seemingly well-formed idea or recommendation by an AI, and react with

Ah, that’s a fascinating possible factor. That’s also basically the one thing I never use LLMs for lol

If you’re not even making your own decisions, then what’s the point? Isn’t life deterministic enough as it is lmao

Some people say “I don’t need human interaction, I enjoy my time alone!” But that’s because they have the privilege of enough social acceptance and integration that they get to enjoy their time alone.

Oh shit, I was about to contest this logic but no you’re absolutely right.

I’m definitely one of those people, but I also have never gone seeking validation online and missed the bus for a lot of those social media trends (outside of the ones that friends at the time ended up bullying me into using, which I would briefly check out then quickly bail on).

Maybe it is more an issue of identity and self-image, as I’ve never once felt emotionally “connected” to ChatGPT or any of these clunky LLMs people seem to swear by. I do admit that sometimes talking out a problem instead of marinating on it on your own can be useful… but I view it almost as an extension of journaling than anything else. There’s always a clear line for me where it’s like “Okay, I got what I needed out of this interaction and now it’s clearly suggesting additional prompts I don’t need to try and keep me engaging with it”…

It’s crazy to me that other people don’t seem to register that line at all lol, it seems so clearly artificial to me.

I think what we’re seeing is similar to lactose intolerance

For real. Good to know I can handle both my cheese and shitty LLM bots without bodily consequences lmao

This explains a lot, honestly.

Everyone keeps telling me how “addictive” and “convincing” and “personal feeling” ChatGPT is.

Meanwhile, I’m over here like

“Can you stop saying skrrrt after every sentence while I’m trying to research a serious topic, it’s annoying”

“Understood, skrrrt 💥🌴🚗💨”

This right here. Before that it was AirBnb, social media, smartphones… the list goes on.

“Every time you’re talking, the model gets fine-tuned. It knows exactly what you like and what you want to hear. It praises you a lot.”

See, I never understood this. Mine could never even follow simple instructions lol

Like I say “Give me a list of types of X, but exclude Y”

"Understood!

#1 - Y

(I know you said to exclude this one but it’s a popular option among-)"

lmfaoooo

Swiss IPs tend to get through no problem. Whenever I have that issue I just swap to the Switzerland server.

Tbf, the Twitter exodus was kind of a different enshittification. There’s less of a need for filter on that because the issue was “Stay if you’re a nazi” not “Stay if you want to keep tolerating more and more frustrating UI issues and barriers”

So whereas anyone who was looking to leave Twitter we could give the benefit of the doubt because of that implicit filter, it’s not the same for Reddit and I expect swathes of “devil’s advocate” conservative trolls to suddenly pop out of the woodwork looking for new homes [sources of validation].

Not normal teens either. The tiktok/ipad kid gens who developmentally missed the bus for normal critical thinking skills.

Get ready for sleuths of comment spam with only “Bro thinks” “crash out” and “Not that deep” lmfao

I knew it would lmao

Necromancy is more an art than a science

I think there needs to be a quick question form upon sign-up, going over the biggest differences between instances. Such as: “do you want downvotes activated? Do you want to see NSFW? Do you want little, some, or heavy automated blocking of potentially objectionable material?” etc, then have the sign-up page provide you with up to three instance options based on your selected preferences.

Dude. I’m saying this completely unironically: A personality quiz recommending you your instance “house” upon sign-up would be fun AF lol 🎉

It’s a shame because once you get it, it’s actually kinda fun. Like choosing a Harry Potter house lol

The front page of leminal.space is a soothing experience everytime I log on. Their slogan is literally:

Take a break from the slow-burn apocalypse of late stage capitalism’s race to the bottom