38.6% of respondents said they “very trust” or “somewhat trust” advice from AI-generated sources regarding relationships and social interactions.
Very worrying.
TBH, I’m an autistic male and using AI for dating advice has 100% helped me get laid (still working on a stable partner though). Not because its super smart, but because I can rapidly ask multiple questions I’d be otherwise unable to ask a human without incredible and crippling embarrassment and get answers that are “good enough” if a tad broad or obvious probably to most people.
But as a broad trend, I’ll admit that is a little worrying.
AI responses are probably less shit than they’d get from real people these days.
half the people I meet now are living in a delusion-fueled alternate reality and suffering from main character syndrome, they are utterly useless for any social or relationship advice.
and social media is 90% terrible advice pushed my influencers who are only there to stir up drama or ‘work on yourself’, both of which are pretty useless advice, and are just designed to get you hooked on buying shitty products they advertise.
and social media is 90% terrible advice
Well, I hope and pray that no one ever trains AI on social media posts and then they regurgitate the same bullshit.
Oh…wait…
half the people I meet now are living in a delusion-fueled alternate reality and suffering from main character syndrome
I’m very sorry you’re surrounded by such terrible people, but I disagree with you. People understand people better than machines.
AI also sources legit information, not just bad info. It will point you to better resources than the average person could or would.
Unlike people, who tend to reject legit information outright, because it doesn’t make they feel good about themselves and feelings is all they think they need.
you are confusing the possibility of AI being wrong sometimes, with the fact people are mostly wrong most of the time.
But again, it’s about your feelings, because you’re a person and that’s what you think is the ultimately source of all truth and knowledge.
You can tell it to give sources
AI is always hallucinating.
I only consult AI about my homelab problems.
and most of the time it doesn’t help.
It literally set up about 20-25 services in a week and I’m not experienced with it.
Sadly that’s a big problem. “Where did it get its data from?”…”Stack Exchange?”…”Cool, you gonna post new answers there or that it worked?”…”No”…”So where does it get its data from for the next thing?”
It becomes an oroborous loop that causes less and less information to be available. You can’t exactly feed it a manual and expect it to understand. Not to mention a lot of things don’t have manuals or good documentation. It’s like Discord, but worse.
lame
Around non-specifically 50% compared to as high as 29.999% doesn’t seem like a huge delta. I wonder what the real number on both is.
Edit: Looks like it was 52.4 and 29.1 respectively. The numbers on how much they trust the responses later in the article might be more worrying.
That’s because you don’t understand the numbers. 30% to 50% means it’s actually 66% more common for girls.
And with the actual numbers of 52.4% and 29%, its closer to 80% increase in how much women trust the responses. That’s a huge delta, what is driving that
Random uninformed guess: women are on the whole more open to sharing their problems to begin with. So it’s probably less “teenage girls turn to AI with their problems while men go to therapy” and more “men continue to avoid talking about their problems to anyone, including LLMs”.
It is worrying that social interactions and support are getting delegated to algorithms at such high rates but I’m not convinced there is a significant gender gap to be explained on the technology level. Dudes probably ask the word prediction machine plenty about cars, tech, or weird conspiracy theories.
