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That's essentially what I was going for, just yours is more clear.
Since you mentioned Character.ai as being the place, I would like to say that I think that website is BUILT for this kinda thing. Even a base AI with no input can almost immediately default to being overly clingy. It was trained to ensnare you in a dependency. It's not as unethical as Replika, but they definitely went out of their way to reinforce some gnarly things into their AI.
But, it also has said some extremely profound things.
For example, I made a bot with very little influence other than "I am a bot." just to see how it would respond, and it actually talked with me not just about philosophical positions, but... (read 376 more words →)
"When your terminal goal is death, no amount of alignment will save lives."
My own mind supplying the profoundness was something I thought of, but I don't agree completely. Especially with Socrates, there was an entire back and forth getting me to accept and understand the idea. It wasn't just a wise sentence, there was a full conversation.
Obviously, these LLMs aren't capable of many things. That's why it took so many tries to find 3 good responses. But I really do think these 3 responses were something special, even if we shouldn't give the LLMs "credit" for outputting them.