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Threadception here but omg, I feel like KJ & Racheline have absolutely put a finger on something that has made me feel insane about all of this. I talk about imaginary people as if they are real entities with goals, desires, motivations etc all the time. I tell Donna, "no he would never do that"

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com

Interesting thread on interesting thread, and kind of making me wonder if this is part of the very strong author pushback against AI. Obv the stolen books, the attempt to put many kinds of artists out of work, the copying of our voices...but also, we make up imaginary people all the time.

Ghostly Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

My literal job is making up imaginary people that feel so real that other people believe in them. Other people also say, "no he would never do that" because I have conveyed such a sense of humanity via careful words that they can guess what the character would think. genAI is terrible at that.

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Ghostly Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

11 Sept

Every email I get written with chatGPT is like someone has created a vapid soulless imaginary person who is looking at me with an empty nothing looming behind every sentence and it gives me the fucking creeps. And that's before I read the words which are cult-level love bombing incoherence.

Jack - Oi, Shiny!

@oishinythings.bsky.social

11 Sept

I grew up on horror movies so chatGPT makes me think of the bit where something has replaced/is imitating someone in your group. It hits uncanny valley in a violent way. (I'm sure I've been fooled, but generally speaking.)

Ghostly Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

11 Sept

When I'm surrounded by chatGPT writing I feel like Meg from a Wrinkle in Time, stepping into the streets of Camazotz. yes everything is very pretty. but it's wrong. it's so damn wrong.

Ghostly Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

11 Sept

And this is absolutely not to say I think everyone should notice this. I actually am kinda too proud of the work I've done to become a strong character writer to imply that. I've spent 18 years where every single day I think about how to make imaginary people feel real. This is my main event.

Cheryl McNeilly

@cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social

11 Sept

as a clinical psychologist I feel much the same, and it's worrying that people push aside that feeling of "wrongness" in their ai encounters. That feeling is an important alarm for possible danger. If you ignore it repeatedly, you'll stop perceiving it, and then you will begin internalizing it.

Ghostly Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

11 Sept

And that is why I think the rise of this type of AI and the pathological attempts to destroy the very idea of expertise are completely intertwined. These billionaire bros resent that other people have done the work to have skills & knowledge they can't have unfettered access to & want a short-cut.