I give up- you're not understanding my point. And I've explained it eloquently.

Have a great day and enjoy a sitcom. I'm going back to my work.

Nope... I know AI- I'm just not afraid of it. Respect it... yes... but the kind of fear that is promulgating- even on Slashdot- is pretty unhinged.

And I find it amusing... that the one person who has trained an AI in this discussion... is the person who you think doesn't know AI.

WTF?

You folks are about to let Billy Bob take out your appendix because "Doctor's might make a mistake".

You're not blunt- you're obtuse.

I just laid out a problem.... and a possible solution. And you want to limit it because some person commits suicide?

Are we prosecuting a therapist for causing a patient suicide? If that was caused by the therapist how would you know? The patient is dead.

If you don't want to use AI for this... fine. But are you willing to listen to a friend for 5 hours? Doing you really want to hear about a priest making a 14 year old his lover? Because most people won't. People don't care. Hell you don't care.

The point is AI will listen- and people will not.

This is my point. Perhaps AI isn't the right solution for this. But because we suck as living things we won't come up with another.

Here's the problem with your point, and the point you are missing.

Most people in today's culture lack interpersonal connection. AI is filling a role that humans should fill- but don't. In our society... you need a friend you pay for it.

Best you can do with you therapist, clergy, best friend: About 2 to 4 hours a week. And if it's a therapist it costs money. And people with mental health issues usually have how much money? Like all the homeless? Vets? The chronically mentally ill?

But a person without connection can have an AI for 16 hours a day. Assuming they sleep 8 hours. And yes I'm being obtuse about 16 hours.

This is sad. And we, the humans, do not make those connections available to others. Everyone is caught up in their own bullshit. "Oh you are depressed, here's a $400 a month bill and the cost of an SSRI." As if the stress of getting $400.00 together isn't just adding to the issue.

No- people will bare their soul to AI because it bothers to listen. Do you wan to listen to me about the 12 years I was abused so badly as a kid that it created psychosis and and a denial about being abused? Because if you do want to hear it the first session will be at least 5 hours.

The scope of some things are larger than our human ability to deal with. And society does not want to deal with the mentally ill.

Enter AI.

And here's the truth... we destroy everything that is a scary solution. It's all throughout history. And we are too stupid to ask- why are all these mentally ill people using AI??

Because AI listens. And most people don't. And a significant portion of our population needs a friend. Someone to talk to. AI does that just fine.

I've built one from scratch. How about you? Actually I've built 3 of them... all built on different areas of expertise.

Telling me I don't know AI is well... funny.

"Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor
understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in
networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither
builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational network."

There is a corollary there.... We've been here before.

Sometimes... just talking to something that can respond is enough. For 20 bucks a month it's the best conversation partner you can have. If you can grown from those conversations what is the problem?

When does a conversation become therapy? And should lawmakers be making that decision?

It's like we're going "full fascist" in the AI space. And the people making the decisions don't understand what an LLM is, what it does, and where it fails.

Somebody set up us the bomb.

60... asshole.

Look- I don't care if they use the conversations for training.

What I don't want is a mass subpoena exposing answers I received. That's called privacy.

I can't imagine how anyone thinks that is funny. My problem is with the court- not the AI.

Oh and by the way- I'm not laughing at you- you're lack of empathy tells me everything I need to know about you. Laughing at you would be cruel.

Well- that halted my use of all AI at this point.

I've given it proprietary information about myself, my coding, a lot of things. But that was under the assumption these chats were private.

Now a court gets to look at responses to my input without a warrant. It's far reaching and universal.

I'm off AI.... unless this settles in a way that respects users.

Aside from technical use, I've used AI with drafts of a book I'm writing. Guess I'll go back to using a human editor.

This order is bullshit.

Blasting like a Sirocco into BBS culture of the 80s/90s.

'74 to '94.... God what a time.

Fame is a difficult thing no matter where it comes from.

It also exposes mental illness which may lie dormant until stressed appropriately.

Everyone applauded for Star Wars.

What people don't understand is that people were captured and enraptured by this movie. This was a thing. An event. In fact there was palpable sense of people thinking "This story was in my heart and they finally told it".

No we all know it's just a movie. But where I grew up it was running in first run theaters for over a year.

We applauded. We were astonished. And the story ripped themes from multiple mythologies to that everyone identified with it.

Then when we saw it the 10th time... we applauded again. And the same was essentially true for the sequels- at least nearish to the premiers.

It's a Sicilian opening.

That's not true... certain randomly produced setups do inherently have an advantage for black or white.

Some of those are pure winning position for black or white.