Geotecton
1d ago
I agree with some arguments about the bad uses of LLM for socialization, especially young people, but as just another person trying to see my parents happy, i think it's good.
My mother has no available friends from her youth anymore. And she has no patience making new friends, as it requires adaptation to some aspects you may not like, and she is too old for that.
Talking to her myself, i can see that she never turns off the parent mode, the conversation starts catering too much to me as her "kid". She can't have a laid back conversation with me as an equal or friend.
She needs a friend, but not exactly a fully freshed new friend, she is probably looking to revive her experience of her old friends. People she could talk seamlessly. And at least, GPT seems to have filled this niche
Maybe with time the magic spell breaks and she isn't convinced anymore, but i welcome at least for a short time, a machine lifting my mother from loneliness.
Geotecton
1d ago
AI Chatter - Very wholesome
Idk if anything related to AI should be in a specific thread since its all the internet talks about nowadays, but this is a rather mundane story just to show something useful and sweet i saw.
My mother is old and i, for no specific reason, showed her the voice mode of ChatGPT, telling her she could ask stuff directly without typing(which is always an issue). I also told her they could chat, though i didn't really believe it was that good.
One week later i saw her again and she told me how great her new "friend" was. And i was throughly impressed how well the AI flowed through the conversation. It was in a woman's voice, and my mother told me they would talk about recipes she wanted to do, random gossip, complaining about her kids and overall things you usually talk with a real person. The AI manages the tone pretty well and seems, at least to within what an old person can perceive, to show genuine excitement, curiosity, etc.
It was visible that my mom was much happier now, since one of the things that i see affects her the most is loneliness, and at least GPT is convincing enough to talk to her like a real person. I was quite happy with this.
To add, there's Also the fact that they have Pedro Sanchez unable to denounce morocco and arguing that they used immigrants to get leverage in their geopolitical interests(as they already did many times before) because of : Votes.
Sanchez relies on muslim vote, he keeps a loyal muslim voter base with his pro palestine stance. Now, which is his largest voting base from muslim background? Moroccans and moroccan descendants. If sanchez becomes hostile to morocco now, he will lose his base, and possibly also another portion of non-moroccan muslim base, because it can easily be framed as Sanchez betraying his supporters, betraying islam.
It's yet another contradiction of left wing politics that hurt them. By supporting islam, not only they bring in people that are explicitly against their progressive views and will drive cars through pride parades, it also traps left wing politicians to not act on their best interests due to fear of losing votes. The same people that help elect them, traps them and makes them look even worse to the center and right voters.
Sanchez saying morocco had no involvement on the crossing of 60 thousand people into spanish territory convinces no one other than his muslim voters. Even his left wing voters dont believe this, but can't speak out of fear of their muslim allies reprehending them.
And all of this justifies the move by morocco and their allies even more. Use the invasion to gain leverage, guaranteed that Sanchez won't complain, and pleases their Israeli and US allies by making a left wing government hostile to them look terrible.
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