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As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys

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4w ago

As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys

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4w ago

As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys

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4w ago

As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys

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You think there are mental health problems now? The more AI takes people's jobs, the worse mental health problems we'll see.
- I still remember when computers took everyone's jobs. Suprised there are any left.
  
  Was this before or after the robots that took everybody's jobs?
  
  It took decades for the computer revolution to become the personal computer revolution and businesses could adapt workflows and build out new ways to spend their R&D money (remember this was all back when stock buybacks were illegal, so companies were still investing in themselves) to fill the headcounts. It's taken mere months for generative AI to upend businesses and schools, destroying entire professions. I do not see the two as being highly comparable.
that one horrifying movie where action figures and dolls come to life rings a bell.
- Toy Story? You were afraid of Toy Story?
  
  I think he's talking about Small Soldiers.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Soldiers
  
  maybe Small Soldiers lol
  
  The Christmas Toy.
  
  yea as @deadtom@lemmy.world said, Small Soldiers. Its quite the nightmare fuel for me.
- The Indian in the cupboard? But I don’t remember if he was a toy or not.
- The lord of the rings? You were afraid of the LOTR?
It's just another money/power grab. Tech bros want to spy on your kids to train their mythical AGI God, make shit loads of money and be in a position of influence.
Take away people's economic independence. Take their intellectual capital. Take their capacity to learn and think independently and ultimately their capacity to play and imagine.
The sheep are being led towards a very fucking grim world.
Lets be clear it isn't the tech that is bad. Self hosting a model for a task that suits it like speech recognition for a disabled person is righteous and liberating.
I hate to agree with the Marxists of Lemmy but the problem is very much capitalism as it is with global warming, pollution and a social inequality. Where I will split with them historically is I still believe in liberal democracies capacity to regulate capitalism for a common good. But when everyone has outsourced their thinking to a corporate AI from birth to death democracy is fucked isn't it.
We need to be aware of how we are being fucked over, sceptical of people pushing this shit and engaged politically to make sure it is regulated appropriately otherwise these cashed up AI fuckers are going to write legislation for our politicians to rubber stamp.
- it isn’t the tech that is bad. Self hosting a model for a task that suits it like speech recognition for a disabled person is righteous and liberating.
  Even that is tricky. One must check how the model itself was trained, namely :
  was the trained data acquired rightfully (e.g. not stolen images without creator permission)
  was the training done properly (e.g. not out of a datacenter running on polluting generators)
  was the annotation of the training data done within worker rights (e.g. psychological support if violence or porn data to remove)
  rather than just solely have a positive use case and being privacy preserving.
- You call out Capitalism correctly for causing these very conditions due to the profit motive, but still cling onto the illusion that capitalism can somehow be "regulated". The very point of capitalism is to maximize profits while eliminating costs, it takes no account of the conditions or quality of life of workers since that is literally not the goal. Even just from a logisitcal analysis its obvious, since any social reforms cut into profits by their very nature, and will never be taken on by a capitalist org unless forced to. And when Capitalists have much more political power through lobbying groups and legalized bribery, we don't regulate capitalism, capitalism regulates us.
  
  i don't know where you are, but it sounds like you are extrapolating. capitalism can work, as long as it is controlled. capitalist system in a socialist state can produce quite good results. neither china nor usa do that in a healthy way.
  if you want working examples, i suggest looking into different european countries. obviously no system is perfect - but there are systems which do work.
Hey a buck is a buck, why do you hate America?
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prediction: right wing hysteria claiming the chatgpt toys are turning the kids gay/trans and/or the actual cause of school shootings.
Can anyone give me a tldr on how LLMs are linked to mental health breakdowns?
- People get attached to a machine with no emotions, no morals, no ability to think before it speaks. A 14 year old boy killed himself because his AI girlfriend told him to. An LLM doesn't know what's okay and what's abuse. A person's heart doesn't know it either.
- You can have some meth, as a treat.
- There was a spate of news articles recently about AI feeding people's delusions to the point that they start thinking they're the chosen one, emphasising that it was happening to people with no prior history of mental health issues. It was supposedly linked to an update to ChatGPT that made it even more sycophantic than usual.
  It's a mix of sensationalist media and moral panic with just a hint of truth IMO. If people can fall for scams, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories then they can definitely get pushed off the deep end by an AI saying "yes and" to their every thought.
Oh shit, AI is evolving by natural selection. There's a feedback loop of how people interact and training the data.

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