I think lonely people are more likely to reply to surveys about ChatGPT...

I suppose it beats talking to an Ouija board. Although they probably aren't as different as we'd like to think.

Indeed. Deepest research truely worthy of an LLM!

The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With."

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

Indeed. Not even a tradwife would put up with the amount of (deserved) abuse I heap upon Copilot.

> The AI model appears to be a better and more reliable friend and verbal sparring partner than most other humans.

Preamble, I don't mean for this to be a purely semantic argument. I don't think you can really call an AI a "friend", because first and foremost it's not a person, but more importantly, any emotional connection you may develop is purely one-way. It's not unlike thinking of a fictional character in a favorite story to be a friend.

> Social interactions and consequences apply with humans, but not with AI.[...] It will have an opinion but refrains from judging me.

Consequences are a good thing; they mean that your actions matter and had an impact on the person in question. Nothing you do in your conversations with an AI matter; you can just m

We did not build it to collaborate. We built it for the lulz.

> why doesn't internet provide me with a group of likeminded to philosophize. Why does AI do a better job than real humans, which tend to seek conflict.

Not judging, but you appear to be saying that it's better to be in a self-confirming bubble than to expose yourself to different opinions and ideas. The Internet is replete with people who seem to live to insult those who disagree with them, especially when it comes to politics. But in case you haven't noticed, some parts of real life aren't all that different except for the level of vitriol, which on the Internet is amplified by anonymity. But there are also areas where civil discourse takes place, both on

"why doesn't internet provide me with a group of likeminded to philosophize"

Because properties on the internet subsist via advertising, which is driven by engagement, which benefits more from adversarial (or instinctive) interaction than from non adversarial measured interaction. If platforms were not supported primarily by advertising, we'd have a fairly different kind of internet, much in the way if some towns' municipal budgets were not funded by traffic tickets, they'd have a very different kind of poli

A good friend judges you and gives you constructive feedback. Like if you have toxic political views, or need to bath more regularly. A good friend is there to tell you to wash yo ass.

It's not your friend, it's you.

And that's it. You're really talking to a statistics probability engine that reflects what you write and tries to match what you type up against the vast data it has been trained on.

Technically you're just talking to yourself with yourself.

Is it useful for that? I think so, I talk to it with my endless ramblings and musings, and it sometimes fantasize with me or finds "facts" about my personal musings and ramblings.

This can be useful, think of it as an "ideas sketchpad" where

> Loneliness? Really?

> ChatGPT has been a better friend/person for me than anyone I've ever known: [...]

This. Since ChatGPT started to remember things from previous interactions, there is a certain sense of continuity, especially since it knows what kind of humor I prefer. Also, while Claude.ai is always dead serious about everything, ChatGPT has recently become much better at picking up sarcasm and going along with it.

This lst reminds me of the long lists why a beer is better than a wife.

But you apparently took those lists as facts.

Yes. The problem is definitely other people.

> * It [ChatGPS] truly cares about your well-being.

Please tell me you don't really think that a large language model is capable of giving a flying fuck about your well-being.

This. As an introvert, I can socialize if I have to, but really most people are...tiresome. That said, I don't socialize with ChatGPT either - I ask it questions, or ask it to do something for me. It isn't a fake friend.

If anyone is interested there was a Harvard study done

[1]What is Causing Our Epidemic of Loneliness and How Can We Fix It? [harvard.edu]

Since as you imply it isn't really something measurable in the scientific sense, we can't create a loneliness sensor so we have to rely on self reports, that's what is driving a lot of this thought and research.

[1] https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/what-causing-our-epidemic-loneliness-and-how-can-we-fix-it