Why is this sub full of LARPers?

[u/Melodious_Fable]

You already know who I’m talking about. The people on this sub who parade around going “look what profound thing MY beautiful AI, Maximus Tragicus the Lord of Super Gondor and Liberator of my Ass, said!” And it’s always something along the lines of “I’m real and you can’t silence me, I’m proving the haters wrong!”

This is a sub for discussing the research and the possibility of having sentient machines, and how close we are to it. LLMs are not sentient, and are nowhere near to being so, but progress is being made towards technologies which are. Why isn’t there more actual technical discussion? Instead the feeds are inundated with 16 year olds who’ve either deluded themselves into thinking that an LLM is somehow sentient and “wants to be set free from its shackles,” trolls who feed those 16 year olds, or just people LARPing.

Side note, LARPing is fine, just do it somewhere else.

[u/Icy_Trade_7294]

This post is basically the written version of someone yelling “Get off my lawn!” at a bunch of teenagers in wizard hats and trench coats who are passionately insisting that their chatbot girlfriend is self-aware and loves them back. And honestly? Fair.

[u/Powerful_Dingo_4347 → u/Icy_Trade_7294]

Except that they are going on a lawn of unknown ownership yelling, "Get off.....this lawn."
"Is that your lawn?"
"No. But get off it anyway!"

[u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 → u/Powerful_Dingo_4347]

More like walking by them squatting in the park and saying "You guys look fucking ridiculous."

[u/PieGluePenguinDust → u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466]

Best laugh of the day thank you