ChatGPT-4o – OpenAI's ickiest product yet

by shafyy • 2 years ago

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Bluestein• 2 years ago

I wonder if the "personality" comes with some sort of "setting" that you can change, much the way you can request certain "formality" levels ...

... I wonder if the "flirt" factor can be toned down.-

(Then again, it might just happen to be that the "flirt" default - if that is what it is - is some sort of conscious choice on the part of OpenAI: Much in the same way it is done in advertising, "flirt" and "female" might work OK with males and be interpreted by females as "also relatable" ...

... striking an optimum of some sort.-

PS. Enter AI "personality packs". Gosh ...)

lproven• 2 years ago

PS. Enter AI "personality packs".

"GPP feature?" said Arthur. "What's that?"

"Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities."

"Oh," said Arthur, "sounds ghastly."

A voice behind them said, "It is." The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They span round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.

"What?" they said.

"Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. "All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."

As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. "Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!" it said.

Marvin regarded it with cold loathing whilst his logic circuits chattered with disgust and tinkered with the concept of directing physical violence against it. Further circuits cut in saying, Why bother? What's the point? Nothing is worth getting involved in. Further circuits amused themselves by analysing the molecular components of the door, and of the humanoids' brain cells. For a quick encore they measured the level of hydrogen emissions in the surrounding cubic parsec of space and then shut down again in boredom. A spasm of despair shook the robot's body as he turned.

"Come on," he droned, "I've been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."

He turned and walked back to the hated door.

"Er, excuse me," said Ford following after him, "which government owns this ship?"

Marvin ignored him.

"You watch this door," he muttered, "it's about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates."

With an ingratiating little whine the door slit open again and Marvin stomped through.

"Come on," he said.

The others followed quickly and the door slit back into place with pleased little clicks and whirrs.

"Thank you the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation," said Marvin and trudged desolately up the gleaming curved corridor that stretched out before them. "Let's build robots with Genuine People Personalities," they said. So they tried it out with me. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you?"

Ford and Arthur muttered embarrassed little disclaimers.

"I hate that door," continued Marvin. "I'm not getting you down at all am I?"

"Which government ..." started Ford again.

"No government owns it," snapped the robot, "it's been stolen."

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atothei• 2 years ago

the content of the release and the voice seem to betray that this "breakthrough" is now becoming about manipulating users (such as with a flirty voice) and gaining even more data and potential for surveilling and studying us later (why does the assistant need to be capturing video?).

Who really wants a video assistant? aren't video calls just exhausting anyway? does anyone really do video chats with existing human assistants aside from when truly necessary?

OpenAI keeps saying this is all for our good and then making choices that show disdain for us and what we might want out of this

kevsamuel• 2 years ago

I automatically filter anything with the word "ick" or any derivative in it.

Because I systematically find that the analysis is immature and shallow.

I ignored my filter on this article.

And yet, the filter was right again.

chrisjj• 2 years ago

Stopped reading (the OpenAI spiel) at "can reason".

Then restarted as morbid curiousity got the better of me...

ChatGPT-4o – OpenAI's ickiest product yet

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