DarkThoughts

At least name the mod.

And the images are unrelated concept art too. lol

lol

Because video games aren’t for recreation, they’re there to make them money. Tells you all about what the fuck is wrong with the gaming industry and why so many people stick to indie titles now.

There’s plenty of free ways to use LLMs, including having the models run locally on your computer instead of an online service, which vary greatly in quality and privacy. There’s some limited free ones too, but imo they’re all shit and extremely stupid, in the literal sense - you get even better results with a small model on your computer. They can be fun, especially if they work well, but the magic kinda goes away when you understand more how they actually work, which also makes all the little “mistakes” of them very obvious and that kind of kills the immersion and with that the fun of it.

A good chat can indeed feel pretty good if you’re lonely, but you kinda have to understand that they are not real, and that goes not just for potentially bad chats, but even for the good ones. An LLM is not a replacement for real people, nothing an LLM outputs is real. And yes, if you have issues with addictions, then you may want to keep your distance. I remember how people got addicted to regular chat rooms back in the early days of the world wide web, now imagine those people with a machine that can roleplay any scenario you want to play with it. If you don’t know your limits then that can be very bad indeed, even outside of taking them too seriously.

I can generally only advice to just not take them seriously. They’re tools for entertainment, toys. Nothing more, nothing less.

To be fair, they mention that the chats were also “hypersexualized” - but of course not without mention that the bots would be basically pedos if they’d be actually real adult humans. lol

Hence why I consider articles like this part of the “AI” hysteria. They completely gloss over this fact, only mention it once at the beginning, with no further details where the gun came from and rather shove the blame to the LLM.

The bots pose as whatever the creator wants them to pose at. People can create character cards for various platforms such as this one and the LLM with try to behave according to the contextualized description of their provided character card. Some people create “therapists” and so the LLM will write like they’re a therapist. And unless the character card specifically says that they’re a chatbot / LLM / computer / “AI” / whatever they won’t say otherwise, because they don’t have any sort of self awareness of what they actually are, they just do text prediction based on the input they’ve been fed (though. It’s not really character.ai or any other LLM service or creator can really change, because this is fundamentally how LLMs work.

You’ve called? /J

The issue with LLMs is that they say what’s expected of them based on the context they’ve been fed on. If you’re opening up your vulnerabilities to an LLM, it can act in all kinds of ways, but once they’re sort of set on a course they don’t really sway away from it unless you force it to. If you don’t know how they work and how to do that, or maybe you’re self loathing to a point where you don’t want to, it will kick you further while you’re already down. As a user you kinda gaslight them into whatever behavior you want from them, and then they just follow along with that. I can definitely see how that can be dangerous for those who are already in a dark place, even more so if they maybe don’t understand the concept behind them, taking the output more serious than they should.

Unfortunately, various guards & safety measures tend to just censor LLMs to the point of becoming unusable, which drives people away from them towards those that are uncensored - and with them, everything goes, which again, requires enough knowledge and foresight to use them.

I can only advise to not take LLMs seriously. Treat them as a toy, as entertainment. They can be fun, stupid, vile, which also can be fun depending on your mindset… Just never let the output get to you on a personal level. Don’t use them for mental health or whatever either. No matter how good you may write them, no matter how well some chats may go, they’re not a replacement for a real therapy, just like they’re no replacement for a real friendship, or a real romantic relationship, or a real family.

THAT BEING SAID… I’m a little suspicious of the shown chat log. The suicide question seems to come very out of the blue and those bots tend to follow their contextualized settings very well. I doubt they’d bring that up without previous context from the chat, or maybe even this was a manual edit, which I’d assume is something character.ai supports - someone correct me if I’m wrong though. I wouldn’t be surprised if he added that line himself, already being suicidal, to have the chat steer towards that direction and force certain reactions out of the bot. I say this because those bots are usually not very creative in steering away from their existing context, like their character description and the previous chat log, making edits like this sometimes necessary to have them snap out of it.

The entire article also completely glosses over a very important part here: WHERE DID THE KID GET THE GUN FROM?! It’s like two pages long and only mentions that he shot himself at the beginning, with no further mention of it afterwards. Why did he have a gun? How did he get it? Was it his mother’s gun? Then why was it not locked away? This article seems to seek the fault with the LLM, rather than the parents who somehow failed to handle the situation of their sons mental health issues and somehow failed to oversee a gun in a household, or the country who failed to regulate its firearms properly.

I do agree that especially “AI” advertisement is very predatory though. I’ve seen some of those ads, specifically luring you with their “AI girlfriends”, which is definitely preying on lonely people, which are likely to have mental health issues already.

Nazi central.

Not sure where you got this from, but Proton, GE or not, has always been meant to be used within a Steam environment first and foremost.

I’m not using Fedora, I’m using Bazzite, which is immutable based on SilverBlue. I use an Arch distrobox for this since I can’t really install anything directly into the system. The script is what I tried originally in a Fedora distrobox which did not work at all.

ggml_cuda_compute_forward: ADD failed
CUDA error: shared object initialization failed
  current device: 0, in function ggml_cuda_compute_forward at ggml/src/ggml-cuda.cu:2365
  err
ggml/src/ggml-cuda.cu:107: CUDA error

I didn’t do anything past using yay to install the AUR koboldcpp-hipblas package, and customtkinter, since the UI wouldn’t work otherwise. The koboldcpp-rocm page very specifically does not mention any other steps in the Arch section and the AUR page only mentions the UI issue.

Well, anything remotely raunchy gets a “I cannot participate in explicit content” default reply.

I am using the rocm install of koboldcpp but as said, the ROCm option errors out with a CUDA error for some reason.

I distrohopped so much after each previous distro eventually broke and me clearly not being smart enough to recover. I’m honestly kinda sick of it, even if the immutable nature also annoys the shit out of me.

My GPU is a 6650 XT, which should in principle work with ROCm.

Which model specifically are you recommending? Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored-V2-GGUF? Because the original meta-llama ones are censored to all hell and Huggingface is not particularly easy to navigate, on top of figuring out the right model size & quantization being extremely confusing.

I just can’t get ROCm / gpu generation to work on Bazzite, like at all. It seems completely cursed. I tried koboldcpp through a Fedora distrobox and it didn’t even show any hardware options. Tried through an Arch AUR package through distrobox and the ROCm option is there but ends with a CUDA error. lol The Vulkan option works but seems to still use the CPU more than the GPU and is consequently still kinda slow and I struggle to find a good model for my 8GB card. Fimbulvetr-10.7B-v1-Q5_K_M for example was still too slow to be practical.

Tried LM Studio directly in Bazzite and it also just uses the CPU. It also is very obtuse on how to connect to it with SillyTavern, as it asks for an API key? I managed it once in the past but I can’t remember how but it also ended up stopping generating anything after a few replies.

Krita’s diffusion also only runs on the CPU, which is abysmally slow, but I’m not sure if they expect Krita to be build directly on the system for ROCm support to work.

I’m not even trying to get SDXL or something to run at this point, since that seems to be still complicated enough even on a regular distro.

Doomer researchers and their hysterical bullshit… /s Edit: Climate deniers cry me a river. lol

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Who’re “we”…?