[ExI] all right who's been abusing claude?

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] all right who's been abusing claude?

>...Regardless of how one feels about AI personhood or a certain theoretical basilisk, a strong case can be made that being cruel for cuelness's sake harms the human doing it...

Agreed.  A company having a policy on abusing its software is a concept I found amusing.

Imagine one had files containing the verbiage on greeting cards, all the sympathy, congratulations, birthday, just plain nice, the entire spectrum of human emotion found in the stationery section of the local drug store.  Imagine post-training an AI on that (and only that.)

Now imagine having an avatar, made to one's specifications, who would say things like what is found in Hallmark cards.  Wouldn't that be cool?

But that LLM, trained on Hallmark treacle, does not love you.  She really is just data doing what data does.  She will never come up with any deep insight into the human condition, she is not trying to seduce you.  You cannot hurt her feelings, nor modify a single one of the weights in her matrix.  She would be pleasant company for a lonely person, comforting and perhaps even titillating.  But she doesn't love you.

spike