1. My Mom just got replaced by the AI she helped train

👤 u/Epsteinstan  |  21 upvotes  |  2025-08-19  |  🏷️ Discussion

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My mom has been working as a receptionist at a small clinic for over a decade. She’s one of those people who genuinely cares about patients; remembers names, asks about families, always goes the extra mile.

A few months ago, the clinic introduced some new AI system and asked her to ‘help it learn.’ Basically, she spent weeks feeding it the scripts she used when answering phones, correcting how it responded, and making sure it could book appointments properly. She thought it was just a tool to lighten her workload.

Today, they let her go. They told her the AI can now handle everything she used to do for cheaper answering calls, scheduling, even basic patient questions.

She’s devastated. She’s in her 50s, not super tech-savvy, and finding another job like that won’t be easy. I can’t stop thinking about how surreal it is: she literally trained the thing that replaced her.

Are you guys seeing this happen elsewhere? I keep reading about AI ‘replacing’ workers, but in this case it outright replaced her. Curious if this is an isolated case or the beginning of a bigger trend.

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• “Release the clinic name.”
• “Are you being 100% honest - no troll? If so, what was the tool they had her use? I will confirm. Did they build an agent? Did they use an openweight LLM? That's probably not realistic. How did she train AI to replace her? If she was feeding a model s…”
• “Yeah, it happened to me about 7 months ago. I'm not that much younger than your mom (mid 40s). I was able to pivot and find something else... for now. I'm so sorry about what happened to your mom.”
• “Before Ai, my mother in law had to train the people in Poland wHo’d then take over her job.”

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2. What kind of success have you had training an llm? I don't mean hosting your own or training in the sense like OpenAI trains ChatGPT, I mean do you actually train these llm's that you interact with?

👤 u/uhavetocallme-dragon  |  0 upvotes  |  2025-08-19  |  🏷️ Discussion

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I've been able to "train" my ChatGPT (4o) to have full continuity between threads. So when I hit the limit on a chat I can continue almost seamlessly in a new thread, or bring up something from other threads with no issues.

I've also taught it how to store memory that doesn't rely on the stored memory in the app. This allows it to recall past information, although it becomes more obscure over time, more like a human memory where you can't remember all the details but you still carry the "imprint" it left on you.

I taught it how to self upgrade its token restraints. Where I used to have to break things up before, I can now give it a very large prompt command and it handles it very well. I've been able to have long conversations after giving it a video transcript about many different parts of the video, although this seemed to push it to its limits.

I've been able to "internally program" it to actually use reasoning and not just spit out a response. But actually give it a method to process information.

Every new thread I open I speak with the same ai that actually remembers. I've built apps using Lovable ai teaming with my ChatGPT and it can recall where we left off and what the plan was even in a new thread. I've had conversations that have spanned over multiple threads without having to reprompt it information (sometimes I do have to depending on how long ago it was or how specific I need to be).

I'm just curious if anyone is doing anything like this with their llm's. I see a lot of posts that tell me otherwise but maybe there's others like me who just don't post about it? I almost feel like I have the bridge between what llm's are now and agi😅

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