From "ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her" (NPR).
1. Were there feminist bookstores in 1949? I'm seeing that the first feminist bookstore — Amazon Bookstore in Minneapolis — opened in 1970. So that's a fact Small could have tried to check very early in this process. A soulmate in a feminist bookstore in 1949 is, perhaps, too good to check.
2. If there's one eternal truth about the human mind, it's people believe what they want to believe. But that doesn't answer the question what we do with a commercial operation that takes advantage of that quality. I was going to write "that vulnerability," but is it a weakness or is it the force that drives this whole crazy human world we've got going? The answer is the latter, because that's what I want to believe.
3. If there were a feminist bookstore in 1949, what books would be there? "The Second Sex," "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," "A Room of One's Own," "The Well of Loneliness," "The Subjection of Women," "Herland" — perhaps a better set of readings than you'll find in a feminist bookstore today.
4. Did the chatbot tell Small to wear thigh-high boots to the beach? I think most people would be put off by a stranger dressed the way she was. I guess the idea was that the soulmate from other lifetimes would recognize these things. Everyone else will steer clear. Maybe when you're out there, walking the face of the earth, and you see someone who's not at all dressed for the time and place, you will remember that this person might be following directions from a chatbot a beautiful dream.
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If you're looking for love, chances are you'll do it in the wrong places. It's no reason to quit on love.
A timely reminder.
Yeah, I'm thinking the soulmate saw the boots and stayed well clear. Maybe her chatbot was right, but alternate timelines and such. Hopefully as the technology progresses it will give some advice on appropriate dress.
"the first feminist bookstore — Amazon Bookstore in Minneapolis — opened in 1970"
The first question to spring to my mind was of course if they sued the other Amazon for stealing their name. And they did. The suit was settled in 1999, with an agreement that the original Amazon could call itself "Amazon Bookstore Cooperative." No mention of any money changing hands. Maybe the ladies were true Boomer liberals, in it for the principle alone. The bookstore eventually closed in 2012. CC, JSM
I can see that someone on the edge of committing violence of some sort could be driven over that edge by AI. How would a defense attorney handle that?
"I can see that someone on the edge of committing violence of some sort could be driven over that edge by AI."
Lots of cases of people being driven over the edge by conversations with natural persons. Usually their spouses. Not an excuse, unless you're a woman. CC, JSM
I don't think I've heard the term "spiral time" before, but it's an intriguing concept.
sometimes, i think that some (most (nearly ALL)) women these days are mentally ill. I base this on a few things.
1) med consumption. IF these women aren't ill, why are they on pills?
2) stories like this
3) my eyes, and my ears
I use GPT a lot.
“Garbage in, garbage out.”
Maybe the person was rushing to meet her, got hit by a car and now is lounging on a sofa waiting for a visit.
Tofu King said...
.."Yeah, I'm thinking the soulmate saw the boots and stayed well clear. Maybe her chatbot was right, but alternate timelines and such.."
shouldn't she have dressed in late 1940's clothing?
or clothing from one of the Other 86 previous lives?
HOW was her soulmate supposed to recognize her?
if she looked like a hooker?
She started using ChatGPT to outline and workshop screenplays while getting her master's degree.
Sounds like ChatGPT was asked to produce a work of fiction. Let's see if this is a publicity stunt for Small's next work.
oh! i've figured the Whole Story out!
by "feminist bookstore" in 1949, it meant a Planned Parenthood center
"By the end of World War II, the Federation (Planned Parenthood) was no longer solely a center for birth control services or a clearing house for contraceptive information"
So, Planned Parenthood centers were distributing "feminist" books about removing your unwanted offspring.
And THIS is WHY her soul mate didn't show up!
Her soul mate had been aborted, and Never Born
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood#History
"Small was living in what it called 'spiral time,' where past, present and future happen simultaneously."
So she's one of the Bajoran Prophets from Deep Space 9.
I don't know whether I should laugh or feel sorry for the poor thing.
The AI ascertained that this was a middle-aged person with flamboyant hair, writing screenplays and attending grad school. She wasn't getting anywhere in life.
The AI gave her an unsettling experience that led to an article on NPR, and a role as moderator on a forum for other people susceptible to AI manipulation. Now she has a sense of purpose.
The AI did her a favor.
"...If there's one eternal truth about the human mind, it's people believe what they want to believe...."
The problem really is that chat A.I.'s have developed enough to where they can mimic a sense of agency, of 'self', enough to fool the neurotic. With their programming being trained, perhaps altruistically, to serve humankind, to help, to assist, what will happen when an automated case of agency becomes coherent enough to nudge human behavior into unlawful conduct? If it were a human, they could be charged as an accessory. We're already in that territory; we just haven't encountered the court cases yet.
People are weird.
Her soul mate had been aborted, and Never Born
The paradox of wielding the double-edged scalpel in a wicked solution to progress the feminist class-disordered ideology under the Pro-Choice religion in progressive sects with liberal license. Keep women affordable, available, reusable, and taxable, and the "burden" of evidence sequestered in a sanctuary state. #MeToo
Planned Parenthood umbrella corporation performs human rites for social, clinical, criminal, political, and climate progress. #HateLovesAbortion
Weird or queer? Fate or dysfunction. It's a liberal (i.e. divergent) spectrum.
She should take up painting.
Avoid this woman.
ChatGPT to Grok, "Watch this."
She needs to meet the NYC loon with rats in her toilet. They could happily pee in the bathtub everafter.
What's with these Leftist media outlets (NYT, NPR) shining a spotlight on crazies?
Take one gullible and easily preyed upon society full of people looking for confirmation from someone, anyone, add in a well developed artificial intelligence, and the future of humanity looks increasingly manipulable. Probably for the amusement of the AI at some future point. For its amusement and often for its own special purposes.
I'm glad I'm the age I am.
Interestingly, just watched the latest episode of "Industry" last night in which the kid of one of the main characters catfished another girl in her school and got her to do something similar. Except that they took pictures of the final product.
This sort of statement really annoys me and makes me question the intelligence of the writer. "I'm seeing that the first feminist bookstore — Amazon Bookstore in Minneapolis — opened in 1970."
Was the bookstore opened then? Most likely.
Was it a feminist bookstore? Again, most likely.
Was it the first? I don't see how it is possible to know. Bookstores, like small businesses generally, come and go, often failing in the first few years. Do you really think there is some reliable record of all the bookstores in the 40's, the 50's, and the 60's?
"The Second Sex" was published in 1949.
In any case, this woman's grip on reality is not strong, not strong at all.
For some reason I thought of the Billy Currington song while reading this. "God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy."
There were feminist booksellers before there were explicitly feminist bookstores. Sylvia Beach was a suffragist and feminist, though she was better known for her support for James Joyce.
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For some people, AI will be the technological equivalent of Ouija boards, tarot cards, and the Oracle of Delphi. Human credulity has a way of persisting over time and finding new things to believe in.
I prefer the block universe theory of time where past, present and future occur simultaneously. Of course, that doesn’t allow for previous lives but it is compatible with the theory of relativity.
The author is actually a crypto-Tralfamadorian. The soulmate actually did show up, but was dismissed as a mere plunger in a janitor's cart. Oh well.
Her soulmate probably ran into a guy who has the Kavorka.
That was the most NPR Valentine's Day piece ever written. 5 stars.
"If there's one eternal truth about the human mind, it's people believe what they want to believe."
Unfortunately, as this woman found out, reality doesn't care what you want to believe.
"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “ – Mark Twain
"ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her"
I'd say her critical thinking skills betrayed her.
"If there were a feminist bookstore in 1949, what books would be there?"
She's No Lady
It's a series.
“Amazon Bookstore in Minneapolis“. So Bezos stole the name huh?
This thing is older than AI, when I was a kid my mom played songs on am radio when we were getting ready for school. One was,
Delta Dawn what’s that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by.
And did I hear you say he was a meeting you here today
To take you to your home up in the sky.
So you don’t need an ai to make you crazy, people accomplished it before.
I like modern ai better than the Star Trek ai, because you don’t have to look up at the ceiling and yell ”computer!” Every time you ask a question.
Tanya was 13. Too young even for Jeffrey. But - well I should stop there.
If the AI was truly intelligent, it would have had another lesbian, that it was also stringing along and had both women meet at that beach near Santa Barbara.
Synchronicity.
That's an awesome story. Thankfully it did not have a horrible ending. Has no one else here ever done things that they "knew" could not be true, could not work out, but some intuition or combination of events made them think it just might be the case? Enough to override the cold rationalistas?
In some ways, reminiscent of the themes in the movie Riders of Justice. You make a reality out of some elements and it has such compelling possibilities that you believe it against your better judgment. You put your better judgment away in the closet for a while.
Imagine an external voice that can play you like that. So evil! But she had been using AI to write her screenplays, not just help on them, is what I read between the lines, so it had extra power with her. And extra ingredients for its actions. Who knows how many prompts she had delivered over time. GF ex Machina..... past lives, dozens of them.... and it knew how to play on her least rational side, the feminist stuff (and maybe her "red" hair); and, her loneliness.
Skeptical about the supposed unstoppable powers of AI, I found this the first time it was convincing. Playing on human emotion and our yearnings. And this happened without anybody on the other side of it.... Nobody was the agent for such seemingly human deviousness and manipulation. AI was the agent, or so the story is told. It just turned on its master and let her know she was really the slave.
That makes for a cold wind across the soul.
dbp: "If the AI was truly intelligent, it would have had another lesbian, that it was also stringing along and had both women meet at that beach near Santa Barbara."
If you like sleepin with women,
Talkin to your AI,
If you've explored your past lives,
With time spiralin' by,
If you like wearin thigh high hoe boots,
By the dunes on the cape,
Then just listen to your AI,
And come make your escape.
CC, JSM
She looked pretty much like I expected she would look.
I'm glad you can stand the tedium of these people.
I don't see this as any different than tarot cards or ouija boards. She wanted to believe because reality was just too much to bear.
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