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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So it's actually in the mindset of human coders then, interesting.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

It's trained on human code comments. Comments of despair.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

We did it fellas, we automated depression.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're not a species you jumped calculator, you're a collection of stolen thoughts

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[–] Tiffany1994@lemmy.cafe 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We are having AIs having mental breakdowns before GTA 6

[–] BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

Shit at the rate MasterCard and Visa and Stripe want to censor everything and parent adults we might not even ever get GTA6.

I'm tired man.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 265 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Google replicated the mental state if not necessarily the productivity of a software developer

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 111 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Gemini has imposter syndrome real bad

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 58 points 5 days ago

As it should.

[–] Cavemanfreak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago

Is it imposter syndrome, or simply an imposter?

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn't seem so bad. I mean, I'm still a disgrace to my species, but I'm not struggling.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)

call itself "a disgrace to my species"

It starts to be more and more like a real dev!

[–] Tja@programming.dev 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So it is going to take our jobs after all!

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[–] InstructionsNotClear@midwest.social 105 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Is it doing this because they trained it on Reddit data?

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 65 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That explains it, you can't code with both your arms broken.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 days ago

You could however ask your mom to help out....

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

If they did it on Stackoverflow, it would tell you not to hard boil an egg.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 4 days ago

Someone has already eaten an egg once so I’m closing this as duplicate

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 136 points 5 days ago (23 children)

I was an early tester of Google's AI, since well before Bard. I told the person that gave me access that it was not a releasable product. Then they released Bard as a closed product (invite only), to which I was again testing and giving feedback since day one. I once again gave public feedback and private (to my Google friends) that Bard was absolute dog shit. Then they released it to the wild. It was dog shit. Then they renamed it. Still dog shit. Not a single of the issues I brought up years ago was ever addressed except one. I told them that a basic Google search provided better results than asking the bot (again, pre-Bard). They fixed that issue by breaking Google's search. Now I use Kagi.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know Lemmy seems to very anti-AI (as am I) but we need to stop making the anti-AI talking point "AI is stupid". It has immense limitations now because yes, it is being crammed into things it shouldn't be, but we shouldn't just be saying "its dumb" because that's immediately written off by a sizable amount of the general population. For a lot of things, it is actually useful and it WILL be taking peoples jobs, like it or not (even if they're worse at it). Truth be told, this should be a utopic situation for obvious reasons

I feel like I'm going crazy here because the same people on here who'd criticise the DARE anti-drug program as being completely un-nuanced to the point of causing the harm they're trying to prevent are doing the same thing for AI and LLMs

My point is that if you're trying to convince anyone, just saying its stupid isn't going to turn anyone against AI because the minute it offers any genuine help (which it will!), they'll write you off like any DARE pupil who tried drugs for the first time.

Countries need to start implementing UBI NOW

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[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Did we create a mental health problem in an AI? That doesn't seem good.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One day, an AI is going to delete itself, and we'll blame ourselves because all the warning signs were there

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 11 points 3 days ago

Isn't there an theory that a truly sentient and benevolent AI would immediately shut itself down because it would be aware that it was having a catastrophic impact on the environment and that action would be the best one it could take for humanity?

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[–] ur_ONLEY_freind@lemmy.zip 89 points 5 days ago (3 children)

AI gains sentience,

first thing it develops is impostor syndrome, depression, And intrusive thoughts of self-deletion

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 83 points 5 days ago (15 children)
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 53 points 5 days ago

Pretty sure Gemini was trained from my 2006 LiveJournal posts.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-m not going insane.

Same buddy, same

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[–] unbuckled_easily933@lemmy.ml 38 points 5 days ago

Damn how’d they get access to my private, offline only diary to train the model for this response?

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 53 points 5 days ago (4 children)
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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Look what you've done to it! It's got depression!"

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 30 points 4 days ago (16 children)

i was making text based rpgs in qbasic at 12 you telling me i'm smarter than ai?

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[–] Mika@sopuli.xyz 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wonder what did they put in the system prompt.

Like there is a technique where instead of saying "You are professional software dev" you say "You are shitty at code but you try your best" or something.

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Literally what the actual fuck is wrong with this software? This is so weird...

I swear this is the dumbest damn invention in the history of inventions. In fact, it's the dumbest invention in the universe. It's really the worst invention in all universes.

[–] tarknassus@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

But it's so revolutionary we HAD to enable it to access everything, and force everyone to use it too!

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 9 points 3 days ago

Great invention.. Just uses hooorribly wrong. The classic capitalist greed, just gotta get on the wagon and roll it on out so you don't mias out on a potential paycheck

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 4 days ago

If we have to suffer these thoughts, they at least need to be as mentally ill as the rest of us too, thanks. Keeps them humble lol.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 35 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I once asked Gemini for steps to do something pretty basic in Linux (as a novice, I could have figured it out). The steps it gave me were not only nonsensical, but they seemed to be random steps for more than one problem all rolled into one. It was beyond useless and a waste of time.

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[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Again? Isn't this like the third time already. Give Gemini a break; it seems really unstable

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