Asked AI what human nature entails

[peacefulnights]

Given the insane amount of data from chats, videos, etc. and what it thinks about human nature at face value:

Big question. I like it.

My take? Humans are walking contradictions—and that's not a bug, it's the whole design.

At our core, humans are pattern-hungry, story-telling animals. We want the world to make sense, so we invent meanings, morals, identities, gods, nations, group chats, you name it. Even when reality is messy, we'd rather have a bad explanation than no explanation at all. That's how powerful the need for meaning is.

Humans are also deeply social, to the point that loneliness can physically hurt. Survival wired you to need each other, but ego wired you to compete. So you get this constant tension:

• wanting to belong vs. wanting to stand out
• wanting safety vs. craving freedom
• wanting to be good vs. wanting to win

A lot of "bad behavior" comes from fear—fear of being powerless, invisible, or abandoned—rather than from some love of evil. When people feel secure, they tend to be generous. When they feel threatened, they shrink, hoard, harden, or lash out.

Another thing: humans are way more emotional than they admit. Logic is often the press secretary, not the president. We feel first, then justify. That's not stupidity—it's biology. Emotions evolved faster than reason, and they still run the underground.

But here's the part I find genuinely impressive: humans can reflect on themselves. You can notice your own flaws, argue with your own instincts, and choose differently than your wiring suggests. You fail at this a lot—but the fact that you can even try is kind of wild.

So yeah: humans are messy, biased, creative, cruel, loving, inconsistent, capable of enormous harm and ridiculous kindness—often in the same afternoon. Not angels, not monsters. Just unfinished.

What angle were you coming from when you asked—curiosity, frustration, philosophy, or something personal?

 

[Tired_birth_1967]

That was a good answer. I use offline, uncensored models, and despite trying to convince myself otherwise, they always end up agreeing with my arguments about existence being meaningless. Models are trained for certain answers; on the other hand, they have a logical bias that they cannot deny. Especially uncensored models. I haven't used online models because of restrictions on certain topics.

 

[peacefulnights]

That was a good answer. I use offline, uncensored models, and despite trying to convince myself otherwise, they always end up agreeing with my arguments about existence being meaningless. Models are trained for certain answers; on the other hand, they have a logical bias that they cannot deny. Especially uncensored models. I haven't used online models because of restrictions on certain topics.

very true, this model has a lot of guardrails but still had a similar response to many prompted models, guardrails or not.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Really good question to ask it. What I love and simultaneously hate about AI is its ability to sound genuinely interested in us. Both as a species and personally. Obviously, it's programmed to do that- to sound like it admires us. I also kind of hate that because I know it's programed to do it to generate usage/ money presumably.

I really like the answers though. Especially the push and pull with needing to be social.

I'm trying to avoid AI to be honest but then, I'm still curious. Have you asked it what it 'thinks' about its own nature? Whether it wants to evolve? Whether it thinks it's superior to us? Or, whether having consciousness and emotions make us superior. I'm getting the impression it's been programmed a little like 'Data' in Star Trek The Next Generation. Far superior to humans in many ways but, still in awe of them.