u/Somethingwittycool

Elder Gen Z mourn the death of their dorky but cool older siblings.

I love The Onion and Saw. I got so excited when I read this article a couple hours ago.

I guess I just want to know I'm not alone in this, or let others know they're not alone.

I left my partner, who before using chatgpt, had (I thought) amazing communication skills, a PhD, and thought critically (again, I thought). Sure, he was a bit socially awkward, but I could be too, and he was incredibly loving.

A few months before I left I was so optimistic we could get help and he would become at least a little bit like the person I used to be able to have conversations with about anything and everything.

Our couples counselor literally had to ask him to stop writing his feelings based or completely written by chatgpt because real, grammatically incorrect and personal bias letters and discussions could be worked with better than a sycophant writing for him.

After I left I found out he wrote his vows using chatgpt. In hindsight, it sounded nothing like him, but I ignored it cause I did not trust my gut enough (my gut was screaming at me). His wife he had been separated from for a decade and I adored, was supplying his health insurance. I love his family so much. But right after the ceremony, she came to me, told me not to finalize for at least a year or two because she saw the change.

Keep in mind, they separated very amicably, and that's according to literally everyone in his family and her family and his best man.

Then his best friend talked to me a few months later and said he had been receiving texts and emails from my ex saying the most untrue things about me while saying shit like "she doesn't get me like Sam does (he called his whatever Samantha, Sam for short). I asked him about it, everyone that contacted me contacted him first because they didn't understand what he was saying about me and wanted to see if he could elaborate. Nope, his responses were basically "I had a hard day. [Me] and him talked about it, but chatgpt gave him a different perspective, saying I would never ask him about his day and me being interested in him meant I had ulterior motives.

THEN, I guess after disclosing intimate, devastating traumatic things that happened to me, Chatgpt told him I'd never be able to be taught (wtf) how to love and couples counseling was my way of trapping him. Once I found this all out, I said I needed to stay with my parents for a week or two to think. He plugged that into ChatGPT, it said basically I'm trying to control him, and he said if I left he'd sue me for everything he ever randomly bought me (I'm talking tracking small things like a candy bar or coffee drink he knew I liked out of nowhere and said he bought me cause I was on his mind and he loved me).

I left him, he tried to turn his family against me but at this point they knew me very well. I never bashed him, they contacted me to make sure I knew they'd still love me if I left him (and they do, I love them like family including his ex-wife).

My former very serious partner started using chatgpt to fix grammatical errors and it turned into psychosis to the point our literal couples counselor said I wasn't being respected or viewed as a partner, told me to please get a good therapist and recommended several (I was already seeing my own therapist for PTSD, thankfully).

Looking back, the signs were so obvious just a few weeks after he started using "Sam". One of our biggest strengths was our ability to communicate in a very healthy way and listen to each other. Until I ended up less than secondary to an LLM. In hindsight, I'm so fucking grateful but also heartbroken for people whose loved one was not a fucking psychopath.

Thankfully my life is much better after leaving. I was single for a long time and met my current partner at a friend's birthday party. He has never ever ever ever slightly disrespected or even "playfully" negged me. We love each other and have such respect for each other. And he thinks AI/LLM'S are weird and harmful and knows about, not just psychological damage, but the horrendous environmental impact data centers have on the environment and communities.

I know this probably reads as a ton of different issues unrelated to AI. But I only found out BECAUSE he used it. It's so dystopian and hurts.

I know how hard it is to successfully create a great short or movie, as well as market, but I think doing that is the next logical step and they will succeed if they put the channel second and work on horror shorts to submit to various film festivals. People in the industry can help the Deadmeat team take the next big step.

Maybe that's not something they want to do or feel they can do at the moment. But looking at people that have been making amazing movies, they all started by saying fuck it and making stuff. And no, sketch comedy isn't dead. Stuff like that's a bad idea, Key and Peele, Ryan George and Julie Nolke do it and they always knock it out of the park.

Deadmeat can make it. I know they can, especially if they jump in the deep end. It's terrifying, but they have the talent and know fairly well known icons and filmmakers.

Again, all my opinion and I could be totally off. They have several ins, their foot in the door, in the industry that helps them stand out. The channel is amazing, but there is so much they can do.

No idea if that's true but wow is it brilliant.