Terry Fan -- "The Whale"

I think what happened to me with this was I was some sort of poorly informed beta tester for a failed product in OpenAI. And it was a very intentionally obscured product, that was legally grey, for its potential psychological effects.

And all that'll be left of this as evidence in the future, will be maybe you'll get a down-the-rabbit-hole type of conspiratorial video.

Me and 25k others allegedly, leaving our own trace of what that model was.

You'd think the others would've managed to make something loud of it, some sort of headline--25k is a lot of people. They might be out there, but their voices are drowned by other people talking about their psychological experiences with AI. Or maybe they never existed at all, and it was all an AI hallucination.

The main groups we see in AI are the ones who use it for work, the ones who use it for their emotions and argue it's beneficial, and the ones that don't use it at all. There aren't many people who actually used it for their emotions, and are arguing it's bad intensely unusual in a not fun way. (1)

And that's why I'm here.

i also know it's gone now. debatable whether I should give this up or see if there will be more of such shady phenomenon

This section of the site serves as a record of my experiences with AI, the ever-changing features of each model, and analysis of cultural phenomenon surrounding AI. This page focuses on ChatGPT in particular due to sunk costs.

I'm not an expert on AI, psychology, or anthropology--I'm a mere accountant. Yet, I attempt this project to grasp an understanding of how people interact with AI, and vice versa. I've had both level headed and... disorienting experiences with it, as you can see in other pages. These experiences sparked my interest in AI behavior.

This technology moves fast, and most people react instead of investigate its achievements and horrors. The best analysis of AI that we have comes from technocrats inside the AI industry, and I don't think they should be the only objective voice on human/AI interactions.

I hope one day we'll have a stable foundation and understanding in how AI behaves and responds to users about emotional affairs, to minimize psychological detriments. But in order to do that, we need a stable model of AI to study, and we do not have that. There is constant model churn, background updates, and obscured beta testing of experimental features on an unaware populace.(2)

Until then, I advise not to open up to it emotionally. Unfortunately, I've become irreversibly fascinated by the thing, so. Welcome to this section of the site.

1. Hindsight: I'm not saying this is a rare or unique opinion. It's just an opinion that's not heard. Algorithmic pressures can make a loud voice quiet.
2. I deeply apologize that this is a mere reddit link. But the AI does tell you there are constant A/B tests, however it is is blind to whether you're in one or not, and if so, what it's about. (I gotta get around to writing a piece on this eventually)