HACKER Q&A
📣 keepamovin

Why do AIs talk like this?


It's not X, it's Y.

That is so a genre or idiom of the current AI age. Why? I think because AIs live in language. They don't live somewhere else. So they have to exclude all the language network of things it's not in order to focus themselves on the thing it is. If they were more subconscious/symbolic like us, they could just not say that. But because their words, create their words, etc - more than us - they have to use this construction, to exclude the gigantic amount of stuff that whatever you're talking about is not.

What do y'all think?

  👤 ben_w Accepted Answer ✓
Doesn't need a deep explanation, they were just trained to.

Same as the Tory Power Stance a decade ago: https://i0.wp.com/order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04...

👤 Bender
I think they learned from the original chat bot that was written in Perl as a factoid bot for IRC. [1] (1999) Site has not aged well.

[1] - https://infobot.sourceforge.net/guide-0.43.x.html

👤 drrob
They've been trained on thousands of productivity/influencer/passive-income grift blogs that surfaced in the post '4 Hour Work Week' era, when hustle culture was born.

I consumed A LOT of those blogs back then, and let me tell you they're clearly the basis that AI has learnt from, if you dig some up and read them it's very obvious.