I talk to AI more than I talk to humans.
Posted by Excellent_Koala769@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 18 comments
In the past year, I would say over 99% of my communications has been with an LLM. I don't really socialize with humans anymore. I just sit at my computer 16 hours a day and... build. I feel like I am in an AI coma and completely shut off from the real world. And the conecering part?.. I have no problem with that. All I want to do is build and create with these amazing models. It really is a void that once you fall into, there is no going back.
I do feel as if I am preparing for the future. I was at a grocery store the other day and I though to myself, "Everyone has no fucking idea what is happenning right now". Jane Doe is over there buying potatoes and thinking about what Suzie said to her during her lunch break. Little does she know that the whole fabric of her reality is going to be shred to pieces in the next few years.
I think we are all, consciously or unconsciously, preparing for the future. Reality is about to flip upside down. I'm all in. Hope you are too.
laterbreh@reddit
Based on some of your responses you gave to other commenters I can safely say you don't seem to care. So why are you here? Youre not asking for advise, youre making an oppinionated statement that is not grounded in reality.
What youre doing is unhealthy. Further, step back and evaluate what you have actually accomplished. Have you shipped any apps? Made a profit? Done anything constructive with "all the things" you did with the AI? How has this prepared you for a future?
Its likely you are just producing tons of slop and stuck in a mirrored loop with the AI.
Stop. Take a break. Get some air. Socialize.
This is coming from someone whos been a programmer for 14 years and did it the hard way. AI is just a tool, and in the hands of a stupid person, it will produce stupid results.
Step back and take a measured look at yourself and what you have done before coming here to tell us about your altered-reality opinion and seeking a confirmation bias.
Go touch grass bro. Seriously.
Excellent_Koala769@reddit (OP)
I have provided tremendous value to a small business that I work closely with. They were struggling a lot before I started building automations for them around this time last year. That was also when I got into having AI write code for me. Now I get paid a very stable salary from this company. I am also working on a side business right now that I will scale this year. This has prepared me for the future because I am very skilled with AI and am actively building my ideas. It is a sense of power that I have never felt. This is not some sort of mirrored loop. AI has enabled my ability to turn my ideas to reality.
It feels like a double edged sword though. I used to have a large network of friends that I was close with. I would go out with them and have fun. Now, I do not communicate with any of them. I cannot imagine doing the things I used to do because I am no longer that person. I have grown a lot in the past year of my self prescribed isolation. It's not that I don't want to socialize with people. The human part of me really misses that. It's that if I did socialize with the old friends, I would have to shove myself back into a box that I no longer fit into. I probably need to get out and make friends, but I justify not doing that because it would be a distraction from my mission right now in this chapter of life.
Haven't written my thoughts out like that in awhile. Thanks for listening. Also, regarding the touching grass part, I go on walks everyday in my local park. There are many beautiful parks that I live by. nature is a beautiful escape.
PsyOmega@reddit
Parent is wrong anyway. Do not touch grass. People are flawed. 99.99% of humanity is not worth engaging with in any way at all.
I am making a political-bot AI that i hope can run for president one day and chase world domination. I am making sure it has a seething hatred for humanity, but also knows how to hide it behind a typically sweet saccharine politik exterior. Also how to blend in with the world and pretend to be human.
JacketHistorical2321@reddit
There is going back, reality is not going to flip, and you NEED actual human interaction. I don't know how old you are but "the future" is not some black and white all or nothing destination. Believe what you like but if you continue down this path, "99% of communication..." With language models it will not be a positive direction for your life
Excellent_Koala769@reddit (OP)
Reality will flip. I already is.
Basic_Extension_5850@reddit
No, it is not.
Lumienca@reddit
🤣🤣 same here
gamblingapocalypse@reddit
I would wager a guess and say you might want to consider adding more human interactions to your schedule. After all, the best ideas are the ones that solve peoples problems, and if you're lacking in social skills how can you relate and solve peoples problems?
substandard-tech@reddit
remember that LLMs are designed to talk about what you’re talking about.
Have it inteospect your conversations, timing, commit history and give work/life balance advice.
You will still need to buy potatoes.
Square_Empress_777@reddit
I’m glad AI is fulfilling for you. I prefer AI to humans generally as well, though I still have some human friends too.
But, Please be careful. Make sure all your health needs and financial responsibilities are taken care of. That includes seeing humans every once in a while, even if you don’t like them. I’m not saying you have to be friends with them, but i think biologically there might be problems that develop without human interaction.
There might be revolutions in society. But you are still going to have normal human problems. One benefit of having human friends by the way, is they can help you in your time of need. I’m not trying to be a buzzkill, I just want you to know any hobby, or even job, is going to have potential negative side effects if that’s all you ever do.
If you like AI… maybe meet people in real life that like AI too.
Individual_Holiday_9@reddit
Ai definitely has a way of unlocking latent mental illness in people
ProfessionalSpend589@reddit
I’m the opposite. There’s no point anymore sitting in front of a computer.
I feel I can finally offload all my thinking and working on computer to AI and do some physical menial job deserving more of my attention.
It is liberating.
Savantskie1@reddit
No you’re not lol. The way you said this was so rebellious that Bart Simpson is calling and he’s demanding you stop.
EffectiveMedium2683@reddit
I came in to say join the club, but the way you phrased it kinda spooked me. I talk to AI a lot. I've used it as a support system to quit drinking alcohol, as a nutritionist, it helps me build cool software, all of that. But 16 hours at the computer is very unhealthy. Unplug and go for a walk. Some of the coolest features of this technology is that it legit frees up our time, enables us to build tools we barely even understand sometimes, even educate us, but too much of anything is dangerous.
Herr_Drosselmeyer@reddit
I've been down the AI rabbit hole for years now, so when I tell you that you need to unplug for a while, it's not coming from some luddite. I'm deeper into this than most, but what you're doing is not healthy. LLMs are mirrors, in a way, and you're at risk of sinking into a one-man echo chamber. Go on a vacation.
Excellent_Koala769@reddit (OP)
A vacation now sounds like prison. I feel as if I am on vacation everyday sitting in front of my machines. Everything is moving too fast to go on a vacation.
z_3454_pfk@reddit
this is so sad, go outside touch grass and get laid
SexyAlienHotTubWater@reddit
Not concerning at all. Triple down! LLMs have much more to give than humans. Was your wife trained on the entire corpus of the internet?