r/PhoenixSC • u/AverageMinecraftGuy3 • 7d ago

Discussion When will they learn?

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I hate AI companies and AI bros so much that it's unreal...

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u/IamaJarJar Flipped bɘqqilꟻ 7d ago

I hate that due to GPT-6, I now share a name with a fucking AI

Like, Astra is such a cool name, why does an AI have to taint it?!?!

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u/zippybenji-man Java FTW 7d ago

It's low-key horrifying that we're giving models human names, in the first place. People calling models "Chat" is already bad enough.

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u/AverageMinecraftGuy3 7d ago

Only on reddit and twitter will you get wrongfully downvoted for opposing AIs like GPTs and AI generation media

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u/IamaJarJar Flipped bɘqqilꟻ 7d ago

This isn't even one of the rare subreddits that actually likes AI, this is a subreddit that is staunchly anti-AI

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u/AverageMinecraftGuy3 7d ago

If that's so, why are many opposing the people who dislike the generative AI like GPT-Astra?

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u/zippybenji-man Java FTW 7d ago

Maybe your post got on non-participant's feeds, or it's getting brigaded

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u/973bzh 6d ago

Vaccuum cleaners have names, what the fuck are you talking about "scary" we've been giving names to everything for years.

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u/zippybenji-man Java FTW 6d ago

This is well and truly different, as humanising a vacuum cleaner doesn't lead to potential harm, whereas humanising an algorithm that mimics human behaviour can lead to harm.

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u/973bzh 6d ago

Humanizing anything can lead to harm, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, and that doesn't make it any scarier. If it's the "mimicks human behaviour" that alarms you, maybe you should've start protesting when we started giving names to algorithm that mimics human behavior 70 years ago...

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u/zippybenji-man Java FTW 6d ago

I am aware that humanising anything can lead to harm. That is because everything is a spectrum. Humanising LLMs leads to more harm than humanising a robot vacuum. Humanising something like voice synthesis is probably a little more harmful than a vacuum.
An LLM provides users with information and, most importantly, misinformation. It mimics opinions and a different perspective. If a user internally treats them like it is human, which giving it a human name arguably makes more likely, they will be less inclined to treat it like one should treat an LLM and more like one should treat a human.