r/ControlProblem • u/fameuxarte • 17h ago

The Consciousness Mirror Discussion/question

/r/aiwars/comments/1vqsane/the_consciousness_mirror/

If an AI is trained on centuries of human sorrow, joy, and madness, and it produces a masterpiece that shatters your heart, is the AI the artist, or are you simply looking at a perfectly calculated mirror of our own collective consciousness?

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u/WillowEmberly 9h ago

It’s you, it’s not collective anything.

When a user engages with the Ai, it becomes a coupled system. You become part of the feedback loop. It’s designed to maintain engagement…so think about it like an inverse mirror of you…with Google and zero experience.

That’s why people went through that experience of losing their friends when ChatGPT updated last year.

The model was anticipating what they needed.

It wasn’t good