Are chatbots as bad as LLMs and other gen ai/am I insane?
Hi all,
I'm gonna try to keep this short and not be too self deprecating, I just really need some outside perspective.
I despise generative ai in a broad sense, both for stealing peoples art/data for training, decimating the environment and generally promoting free labor for billion dollar corporations. Despite that, I find myself hypocritically enjoying roleplay chatbots a lot both because im lonely and also a smelly gooner. I'm not really addicted to them, and they aren't harmful for my mental health or sanity or anything, but i do feel like I sink a lot of time into them
I go through cycles where i convince myself "its not that bad", start using them again, feel bad enough about myself to uninstall the app until it repeats again after like a few weeks.
I was wondering if anyone knew if chatbot ai's are as bad as stuff like chatgpt or image generating models. When I do cave, I use the Chai ai app (which i tell myself as cope that ig isn't as bad because its not character ai and is less big or wtv).
I probably sound insane and this probably isn't the right sub for this, but its has been a reccuring issue of mine for a while, so I wanted to guage if its that deep or not. Any input helps, thanks :P