
Pros: you form a parasocial relationship with what is essentially a sophisticated next word guessing device additionally railroaded into keeping you engaged
Cons: see pros.
I also cannot stress enough how cripplingly unhealthy that would be for you, what happens is that you form an echo chamber with a decidedly not intelligent machine that is optimized to keep you coming back, so its owners make more money. It is not made to make you happy, or to actually be there for you, only to sell you the impression.
There are various articles about people doing just that, and then they are talked into unhealthy to extremely harmful behavior by those devices, ranging from extremism to suicide.
I don’t hate the concept as is, I hate how it is being marketed and shoved everywhere and into everything by sheer hype and the need for returns on the absurd amounts of money that were thrown at it.
Companies use it to justify layoffs, create cheap vibed up products, delegate responsibilities to an absolutely not sentient or intelligent computer program. Not even mentioning the colossal amount of natural and financial resources being thrown down this drain.
I read a great summary yesterday somewhere on here that essentially said “they took a type of computer model made to give answers to very specific questions it has been trained on, and then trained it on everything to make a generalist”. Except that doesn’t work, the broader the spectrum the model is covering the less accurate it will be.
Identifying skin cancer? Perfect tool for the job.
Giving drones the go ahead on an ambiguous target? Providing psychological care to people in distress? FUCK NO.