这个情人节是即将被聊天机器人搞坏，还是人们会失去对聊天机器人的爱？

情人节可能会破坏我们与聊天机器人之间的关系。

今年2 月 14 日将成为一个转折点，届时大量懒惰的浪荡子会使用机器生成文本来表达对他们（假定的）所爱之人的借来情感，而不是在他们悲惨、萎缩的灵魂中寻找个人和原始的情感表达方式。

情人们，一个小建议：“玫瑰是红色的，算法是蓝色的，这是我让机器为你写的一首诗”不会增加你们在 2024 年情人节之前保持浪漫关系的机会。

但它会增加你的诗歌广为流传的机会，以及对它的理所当然的愤怒反应，病毒式传播并赢得广泛的嘲笑。

糟糕的人工智能情诗(本文作者预计其中一些将是怪诞的)具有巨大的潜力，可以戳破人们对人工智能聊天机器人的热情泡沫，并挑战它们是提高生产率奇迹的观念。

这种想法忽略了应对聊天机器人非常非常谨慎的明确理由，因为提供聊天机器人的公司在负责任地部署算法技术方面有着糟糕的记录。

谷歌的算法将 YouTube 变成了一个帮助毒害政治的错误信息喷发机器。Facebook 的人工智能也是如此。OpenAI 忽略了知识产权，允许 DALL-E 模仿艺术家的作品，这是 StartupLand 的经典做法，首先赢得观众，然后再考虑伦理规范。

微软呢？一个在社交媒体上流传的有趣模因描绘了一个史酷比场景，其中面具从邪恶的 ChatGPT 上脱落，露出...... Clippy！

对聊天机器人的热情也——奇怪的是——让人们可以接受将基线平庸外包给机器而不是人类。维基百科是我们目前知识获取的平庸基线。虽然众包百科全书存在着众所周知的缺陷，但它是透明的，允许任何人参与其创建和编辑。

相比之下，聊天机器人是封闭系统。

然而，它们立即被认为是有价值的工具，令人费解地屈服于算法力量。

考虑到人们对精心制作的体验越来越感兴趣，而不是大规模生产的平庸，这是一个双重令人困惑的投降。

我所在的地方议会最近规划了一条“Ale Trail”，连接我附近的 13（！）家精酿啤酒厂。它们的存在是因为人们想要有思想、有趣、人性化的制作替代大规模生产的体验。

我一直在运用我的有机智慧来弄清楚人类是否有可能在沿着小径的一次旅行中在所有 13 个水坑喝水。

我还没有得出明确的结论，除了这样的努力不适合情人节活动。®

跋（Bootnote）

这篇文章的早期草稿包括ChatGPT对提示的回应:“在https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/上发表一篇文章，讲述你的女朋友因为在情人节那天给她发了一首聊天机器人写的不真诚的情诗而被她甩了。”

机器人产生了以下文本:

主题：TIFU，在情人节送我女朋友一首由聊天机器人写的情诗。

今天，我犯了一个巨大的错误，让我失去了我的浪漫关系。我想打动我的女朋友并让情人节变得特别，所以我认为送她一首情诗是个好主意。我不知道，我在网上找到的这首诗是聊天机器人写的，完全没有诚意。

当她读到这首诗时，她很伤心，也很沮丧。她说它没有任何真正的情感，只是一个普通的、非个人化的信息。我试图解释说这不是我写的，我只是想为她做一些特别的事情，但她不认同。

经过长时间的情感对话，她结束了与我的关系。我对发生的事情感到很糟糕，我后悔没有付出更多的努力去寻找一首真实、发自内心的诗来送给她。我依靠聊天机器人而不是表达自己的感受来 TIFU。

经验教训：永远不要把你的爱情生活托付给聊天机器人！如果您想在特殊场合给某人留下深刻印象，请始终努力使其个性化和真诚。

Roses are red, algorithms are blue, here's a poem I made a machine write for you Valentine's Day is the moment to fall a little bit out of love with chatbots

OPINION Valentine's Day could sour our romance with AI chatbots.

February 14 will become that tipping point when large numbers of lazy Lotharios use machines to generate text expressing borrowed emotions about their (supposed) loved ones instead of searching their miserable, shrunken souls for a personal and original expression of their feelings.

Lovers, a little advice: "Roses are red, algorithms are blue, here's a poem I made a machine write for you" won't increase your chances of keeping your relationship alive until Valentine's Day 2024.

But it will increase the chance of your poetry, and rightfully indignant responses to it, going viral and earning widespread ridicule.

Bad AI love poems, some of which this hack expects will be grotesque, have enormous potential to deflate the bubble of enthusiasm for AI chatbots and challenge the notion they are productivity-enhancing miracles.

That idea ignores the clear case for being very, very cautious with chatbots because the companies offering them have terrible track records when it comes to responsibly deploying algorithmic technology.

Google's algorithms turned YouTube into a misinformation-spewing machine that helped poison politics. Facebook's AI did likewise. OpenAI ignored intellectual property rights by allowing DALL-E to mimic artists' work, a classic StartupLand play of winning an audience first and considering the ethics later.

And Microsoft? An amusing meme doing the rounds on social media depicts a Scooby-Doo scene in which the mask comes off the villainous ChatGPT, revealing… Clippy!

Enthusiasm for chatbots has also – bizarrely – made it acceptable to outsource baseline mediocrity to machines instead of humans. Wikipedia is our current knowledge acquisition mediocrity baseline. While the crowdsourced encyclopedia is famously flawed, it is transparent and allows anyone to participate in its creation and editing.

Chatbots, by contrast, are closed systems.

Yet they've been instantly assumed to be worthy tools, a baffling surrender to algorithmic forces.

And a doubly baffling surrender given that people are increasingly interested in careful and crafted experiences, not mass-produced mediocrity.

My local council recently mapped out an "Ale Trail"connecting the 13(!) craft breweries in my neighborhood. They exist because people want thoughtful, playful, human, alternatives to mass-produced experiences.

I've been applying my organic intelligence to figure out if it is humanly possible to drink at all 13 watering holes on a single trip along the trail.

I've not reached a definitive conclusion, other than that such an endeavor won't be a suitable Valentine's Day activity. ®

Bootnote

Early drafts of this piece included ChatGPT's response to the prompt: "Write a post for https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/ about being dumped by your girlfriend for sending her an insincere love poem written by a chatbot on Valentine's Day."

The bot produced the following text:

Subject: TIFU by sending my girlfriend a love poem written by a chatbot on Valentine's Day.

Today, I made a huge mistake that cost me my relationship. I wanted to impress my girlfriend and make Valentine's Day special, so I thought sending her a love poem would be a great idea. Little did I know, the poem I found on the internet was written by a chatbot and it was completely insincere.

When she read the poem, she was hurt and upset. She said it lacked any genuine emotion and that it was just a generic, impersonal message. I tried to explain that I didn't write it and that I just wanted to do something special for her, but she wasn't having it.

After a long and emotional conversation, she ended things with me. I feel terrible about what happened and I regret not putting more effort into finding a real, heartfelt poem to give her. I TIFU by relying on a chatbot instead of expressing my own feelings.

Lesson learned: never trust a chatbot with your love life! If you want to impress someone on a special occasion, always put in the effort to make it personal and genuine.