'I realised I'd been ChatGPT-ed into bed'(www.theguardian.com)
32 pointsby sandeberta day ago6 comments
  • sandeberta day ago
    I had to shorten the headline quite a bit, sorry for that. Original headline:

    ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

    • lm28469a day ago
      As if looking for love on dating apps wasn't bad enough, what's their endgoal? Scraping every bit of humanity out of our lives?
  • ZeroGravitasa day ago
    Cyrano de Bergerchat.
    • spidersensesa day ago
      A true Don Juan de Markov...
      • wvbdmpa day ago
        And his trusty companion Llmporello
  • DiscourseFana day ago
    Love always breaks the rules, I guess. Somehow the human race has continued to propagate despite every relationship in the modern world feeling like an impossible accident that was never supposed to happen. And yet it does happen, continues to happen, billions of times over. Billions of people living their lives, falling in love, having kids, dying old and infirm. Like rats trapped in a maze. I wonder if the rats think their love is special too?
    • southernplaces718 hours ago
      Yeah, but usually it was another human plying you with sweet nonsense from the other side of that dance, not some bland sludge factory pointed in the right direction. What you say is sort of a non-sequitor that just bypasses how this GPT nonsense has nothing to do with love or people somehow managing to meet and create sparks in the real world.

      It's like comparing "friendly" spam from a nigerian prince with emails from overseas friends wanting to come visit.

      Edit: Worse, the nigerian prince emails were usually written by human Nigerians at least.

      • DiscourseFan3 hours ago
        I'm saying, maybe with too much flourish, that at a certain level even the "special" kind of love that goes beyond the sludge of industrial life is also just as mechanical, even if it seems like an accident. Maybe I've just been in a sour mood recently but its still true.
        • southernplaces72 hours ago
          I agree that it can be, and that this can be terribly depressing when you start to believe it's the case in your life (it's happened to me before), but even then at least there's another human being on the other side of the equation with whom the chance of opening a crack is possible against some forming emotional blockade.

          Now imagine trying to connect with a person, investing an emotional trickle in ideas of chemistry and possibility, to discover you weren't even speaking to them at all. Their mindless, stone-unconscious AI was snowing you along. So much worse. Brrrr.

          The empty people who use these tactics deserve the desolate romantic life they seek to avoid.

  • nevertoolatea day ago
    "I got you, babe" loops

    Perfect words, rehearsed embrace—

    No one's really there

  • netsharca day ago
    The sentence

    > She was recently on the receiving end of an AI-generated opening line: “Your smile is effortlessly captivating”.

    got me laughing. It's incredible how many confirmations of Dunning-Kruger are out there.

    • loandbeholda day ago
      What does this have to do with Dunning-Kruger?
      • netsharca day ago
        The copy-paster couldn't recognize that using that line would show that he's using an LLM...
        • loandbeholda day ago
          That's an example of incompetence, not Dunning-Kruger.
      • subjectivationxa day ago
        I just assume when I read someone post Dunning-Kruger like this they are trying to make an ironic joke.
    • chermia day ago
      Dunning-Kruger must include some indicator the subject thinks they're more intelligent/competent than they are. All I see here is proof of subject being a dumbass, maybe he/she is aware of it.
  • xchipa day ago
    Newspapers have script writers to come up with plausible stories and get our attention with useless news.

    We shouldn't spread this sort of stuff, unless we want more.