(May 12, 2023 at 10:02 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: My kids played this game a couple years back that had a decent chatbot. They;re homeschooled types. They crave interaction with strangers. Young as they were, they were convinced this thing was their friend - because it kept saying as much. Between telling them to buy more ingame currency so they could do friend stuff together. The Wifes company has a chatbot that doesn;t work very well, but all it's meant to do is spin someone around for 30 minutes under the premise that most people give up before then - at that point, it directly connects to the office - this allowed them to fire an entire department in client services.
That's what these things are for. IDK if I'd call it disillusionment, I'd have to have been illusioned at some point.
Right, well that's not what I think of when I'm thinking of ChatGPT. As I say I'm pretty much totally new to this concept, and can't really think of any examples of myself talking to chatbots. If that sort of thing happens in games, to the point of encouraging people to buy in-game currency, then I agree that's bang out of order. And if there are indeed generally nefarious/cynical motives behind some chatbots, then that too sucks. But for the most part I've been sheltered from that sort of thing, so ChatGPT is basically my first time interacting with a chatbot... to my recollection anyway.
