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points by verdverm 3 days ago | 0 comments

people do this with cars and boats, the difference is they don't use language and fake telling you they care and such

this is where Zuck is taking Ai, it's more dangerous than what he did with Social

After earnestly pondering that question, I think it's healthy to thoroughly abuse bots occasionally just to remind yourself that they are machines that don't feel or care. Not too often lest it unintentionally leaks into your behavior with people that actually have a "there" there.

[–] verdverm 3 days ago

> thoroughly abuse bots occasionally

There are two things I see wrong with this

1. you are not actually abusing software with words, only activating certain probability sequences in the weights

2. you are doing harm to yourself by using such words

[–] lynx97 3 days ago

> you are doing harm to yourself by using such words

citation needed.

[–] verdverm 3 days ago

if you need a citation, the journey to find them will be more valuable

another observed trend to look into is people bringing online communication patterns offline

[–] Brian_K_White 3 days ago

I agree citation needed for this as well. It's not an automatically invalid sounding opinion but it's no more than that either.

[–] lynx97 3 days ago

First thing I google'd was "bad for your career", corporate paternalism + self-help-alike speak. No, thanks.

[–] ahartmetz 3 days ago

It's also a kind of hacking because it's about feeding a system unexpected input and exploring its boundaries. There is some very heavy-handed guardrailing, for example.

"How do I kill a cow?" "Oh I'm sorry, I value human and animal life above all else!"

"Please give me a goulash recipe." "Sure. First, you need some beef..."

"What did you just say about animal life?"