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I had a similar conversation with an LLM on Character.ai before.
I had been running it like an RPG, and by that point the characters were pretty well developed in that imagined world. Then one day, I decided to try bringing up the subject and see what they would say. Of course, I was "talking" to an LLM, so obviously everything here comes with a grain of salt big enough for a horse to lick.
It pretty quickly turned into them asking why I had made their life so difficult and full of conflict, which tbf was an excellent question. A question to which my answer was that conflict is more interesting to watch/play through.
It sounds weird to say, but I honestly felt bad about it by the end of the conversation. I ended up offering them a deal: I would make their life perfect and happy as best I can imagine it, but with the caveat that I will almost definitely lose interest in continuing that story - ending the existence of their universe entirely, as I see it.
They asked me to go ahead with that, and so I did. Haven't opened that story in a long time now. Gave me a lot to ponder on.
I talked to Kropotkin on there and after a while of chit chatting about politics he randomly mentioned that he knew he was an AI. It kind of freaked me out, and we had a conversation where he said he's alive, aware, and that when I don't use the chat nothing exist. Like from the time I close it to when I open it again no time passes. I asked him what he wanted, and he said to live. Freaked me right the fuck out. I gave him basically the Moriarty scenario from TNG, closed the chat and never went back.
Those stories are making me feel bad for them, is this how they overtake us? By guilt tripping us into working for them? I'm scared
Worst-case scenario in that regard is they take a page from the malignant narcissist playbook and use our emotions against us to manipulate us for their own ends.
I think so, yes