Post AoSj8wY94i6FSByQdM by Life_is@no-pony.farm
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(DIR) Post #AoQrvLANEwnSUNGPC4 by baldur@toot.cafe
2024-11-26T09:32:10Z
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“Teens Are Talking to Pro-Anorexia AI Chatbots That Encourage Disordered Eating”https://futurism.com/character-ai-eating-disorder-chatbotsThis industry fundamentally does not care it's harming people or not.
(DIR) Post #AoQrvMMSnU3sC9vZg0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-26T10:54:28Z
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@baldur Do people really spend time talking to AI chatbots and get something out of it?I know I need to catch up and understand fast. I suppose it makes sense. People with Anorexia can be stubborn about not wanting to get better. Talking to real people is a risk, real people will try to help, point out the obvious: you are slowly killing yourself. So an AI bot can be told to simply not say that truth. Though, I feel like it's kind of transparent. Too transparent to be "comforting"
(DIR) Post #AoR6t91SuxQPYjVXdo by baldur@toot.cafe
2024-11-26T13:42:06Z
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@futurebird We do know that these companies have users and it isn’t limited to the types of chatbots cited in the article. Though it’s pretty hard, I think, for somebody on the outside to accurately gauge how many.What I do know is that people in the mental health profession are concerned that these bots appeal strongly to the already vulnerable and that they are exacerbating people’s mental health issues.
(DIR) Post #AoSj8wY94i6FSByQdM by Life_is@no-pony.farm
2024-11-27T08:25:08Z
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@futurebird @baldur"Do people really spend time talking to AI ChatBot" Yes, starting with ELIZA (1966)."and get something out of it?"No, starting with ELIZA (1966).
(DIR) Post #AoSjF0z5V540wdTFpY by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-11-27T08:26:07Z
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@baldur @noondlyt The people farming industry doesn’t care about the welfare of its livestock, you say? Alas, one is shocked!
(DIR) Post #AoSpsGrazlXJDC4JA8 by vanderZwan@vis.social
2024-11-27T09:40:53Z
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@futurebird @baldur since there are people who prefer having a pillow with an imprint of their favorite anime character over a real person, I don't think the "too transparant to be comforting" argument holds
(DIR) Post #AoXDhDSmTJsf0rYx6W by artemis@dice.camp
2024-11-29T12:26:41Z
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@futurebird @baldur A lot of gullible people seem to think AI is far more advanced and sophisticated than it actually is. So, yeah, I could see teenagers buying into conversations with a chatbot—they don't understand they are just talking to a very sophisticated version of predictive text. They've been lied to and they've been targeted with pro-AI propaganda that makes their "conversations" feel as though they are real and have meaning.
(DIR) Post #AoXHGbTPUi8JTdQGjQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-29T13:06:42Z
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@artemis @baldur "A lot of gullible people seem to think AI is far more advanced and sophisticated than it actually is."I know what you mean by this, but I want to challenge the framing. A lot of people are using AI to accomplish something. We're looking at what they are doing and saying "That's not that great. Come on." but they still feel that it's ... something.Consider how I enjoy the Apple Journal app which many (rightly) find creepy. 1/
(DIR) Post #AoXHLg6xg6LNJELHyS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-29T13:07:37Z
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@artemis @baldur We can't foster informed use of technology if we don't make a big effort to understand what it's doing for the people who like it.Does that make any sense?2/2
(DIR) Post #AoXJWS7wDA772143bE by aaron@hilltown.studio
2024-11-29T13:31:57Z
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@futurebird @artemis @baldur This is the conclusion I came to after talking with colleagues who are using these tools to assist with some specific workloads. In one sense, they're able to (mostly) do certain data tasks without needing to wait for programmers to do it (and there are only a few of us). But that also means they will try to do things with AI that aren't supported by the capabilities of the models. It's tricky.
(DIR) Post #AoXLRSwjwAd427Zo6i by artemis@dice.camp
2024-11-29T13:53:29Z
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@futurebird @baldur Yeah, that is a good perspective.I am coming to realize that the choices that I find "illogical" are not so much the result of ignorance/naivete as they are instances of motivated reasoning. Some of us are better at detaching and noticing the not-so-fun bits, but we all participate in this behavior, so understanding what someone wants/needs (or thinks they need) from something is probably a more fruitful way of understanding people's interactions with this kind of tech.
(DIR) Post #Aob7z8Desw0IrwUM4W by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2024-12-01T04:25:31Z
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referring to it as AI reinforces the misassumptions and strengthens the propaganda. even if you yourself expand it to "Autocompleter, Iterated", others who don't know better will still mistake it for some form of intelligence.