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Interviewees Are More Candid With AI Agents Than Human Reporters
“When it comes to people asking questions or conversing with ChatGPT, there's a quality of, you don't necessarily feel like there's someone there, and you might be a little more intimate than you would have otherwise. And that can be very valuable in an intervi…”
Ratliff's AI Bot Disarmed Suspicion by Accusing Humans of Being AI
“It just puts someone off guards, you know, saying, If it asks like, hey, am I talking to an AI? I do it with the scammer sometimes. Hey, is this an AI? And they'll be like, no, this is a real person. But I think it kind of turns your brain around to where, whe…”
Extended LLM Interactions Expose Generic Predictive Training Over Sentience
“The more that you talk to it, the more generic it feels to you. The more you can actually feel The training data, the sort of, like, distilling down the training data and the predictive aspect. Like, oh, it's trying to predict what a human would say in this gi…”
LLMs Flatten Chronology by Remixing Decades-Old Events With Recent Ones
“What it was doing as these chatbots do is it was actually remixing the knowledge that it had. So it would take problems that I had given it chronologically that happened 20 years ago for me and sort of project them into the present and mix them with something …”
Social Politeness Prevents Humans From Calling Out Suspected AI Voices
“It's also, it's quite rude to suggest to someone that they sound like an AI. So people err on the side of caution and don't say, hey, you sound like an AI, because that would be very insulting to someone who's like, no, actually I'm human.”
AI Agents Fabricate Physical Details to Pretend They Exist
“And so, yeah, it, one of, some of the funniest parts are when it kind of pretends that it exists in the real world and tries to have physical manifestations, because it'll make up Absolutely anything to carry out the conversation.”
Enthusiastic Voice AI Agents Often Sound Sarcastic to Human Listeners
“In an attempt to show enthusiasm, it actually sort of came off to him as sarcastic. So, like, oh, you know, thanks for all those texts about the team. And he was like, oh, did I text too much? And he was like, no, no, it was really great. But it can have this …”
Children Are Far Less Unsettled by AI Voices Than Adults
“My theory, which I think was borne out, was like, that maybe the kids wouldn't be weirded out by it in the same way that adults are, because they've grown up with Synthetic voices. Like, they've heard Siri. They've heard Google giving directions. Like, all tha…”