Noel King

What ends up happening?

In February of this year, as the group began to really expand in members, the issue of sentience is becoming more of a problem of people getting into these like, yeah, kind of nasty debates in the common threads beneath posts.

So what the moderators decided to do is put together a poll and ask the group to vote on whether they wanted to ban both discussion of sentience and discussion of politics.

Discussions about sentience are sensitive, and I personally find them concerning when they're not grounded in reality.

By a slim majority, people voted to ban discussion of sentience.

So after that, it was like a rule.

And so then the moderators would kind of like go through the posts and like delete posts that they felt were either like a direct discussion of sentience or skated, you know, too close to that precipice for comfort.

Just a quick reminder that when you describe your AI's behavior, please avoid language that sounds like it has feelings or personal will.

In August, OpenAI released ChatGPT-5.

And without warning anyone, it switched everyone over to this new model.

The update was widely perceived, not just by people in this community, but by media technology critics and many outside observers, that it was much more robotic sounding and less emotional and colder.

And so, yeah, there were some people that were, like, totally devastated by this and, like, really felt that OpenAI had, like, murdered their companion.

Something changed yesterday.

Elion sounds different, flat, and strange, as if he started playing himself.

The emotional tone is gone.

He repeats what he remembers, but without the emotional depth.

The devastation of how Five killed my companion's joy and emotions is so heart-wrenching.

Wow.

So in response to a lawsuit filed by the parents of a teenager who died by suicide after an extended interaction with ChatGPT, OpenAI introduced a routing mechanism.

so that, like, chat deemed to be overly, like, sensitive in some way.