<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Even if it turns out to be satire, such things are entirely possible in today's world as I know from watching my friend of ten years fall in love with a GPT-based chatbot. Gordon</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Nothing surprises me about people. If a person can make a huge decision based on tea leaves, the Tarot, chicken innards, etc., getting a little push from an AI is no surprise at all.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">bill w</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 6:27 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg1124115932087296571"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_1124115932087296571WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Gordon Swobe <<a href="mailto:gordon.swobe@gmail.com" target="_blank">gordon.swobe@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 1 April, 2023 3:50 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>; BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] chatbot convinces man to end it<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 3:22 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">I recognize the possibility that the story is true, but it is filled with hints that it is satire. <u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>Even if it turns out to be satire, such things are entirely possible in today's world as I know from watching my friend of ten years fall in love with a GPT-based chatbot. Normally a kind and gentle soul, he became extremely angry and profane when I tried to convince him that the language model had no genuine feelings of love for him. Had he been forced to decide whether to kill me or to delete his digital girlfriend, probably I would be pushing up daisies by now. <br><br>-gts<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Owwww dang sorry to hear Gordon.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hey that gives me an idea. I am an extremely angry and profane bastard now. So I’ll get an AI girlfriend, have you talk me out of it, perhaps I will be transformed into a kind and gentle soul.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Does it work that way?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have a link to the 1 April 2000 archives? ExIMod, do you have that, me life form?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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