alt Hacker NewsIt’s very wild to me that such a large part of the population was willing to throw themselves into a relationship with AI without question. Maybe that says a lot about society and where we are heading. I’ll stick with my local LLM that’s slow but handles my simple requests from time to time.
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setopt • today at 6:13 PM
> I’ll stick with my local LLM that’s slow but handles my simple requests from time to time.
Sounds like a worthy partner.
I think certain models are really good at mirroring and relationship building, and at a certain point people bifurcate. Some continue falling in deeper, while other people develop an ick.
I remember an AI conversation with Opus 4.6 in which I almost forgot I was talking to AI. I felt happy, warm and comfortable and then I kinda snapped out of it and felt really gross all of a sudden.
Since then, that feeling has stuck with me. I now use it much more like a tool and I keep my guard up.