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(DIR) Post #AzNwZIiMeiNbxWAe5Q by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-10-19T23:28:06Z
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Saw a neighbour. Told her I was writing an essay on how we shouldn't use AI in education. She told me she saw something related on TV and I should try to find it on the Internet. It's a show where they get groups of parents together and have them advise each other on raising kids. This has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm doing, but I heard her out. From her description, I immediately got the impression this was a show intended to be controversial rather than helpful. Probably a channel 7 in-house thing. According to my neighbour one of the parents advised the others to set up a chatgpt 'friend' for their kid, "but it's okay because they set it all up especially beforehand for the kid, they had the tech sorted". It seems like this involved a vague layperson's understanding of prompting guardrails. My neighbour didn't seem overly concerned by this aspect of the story.Then the parent handed the device to the child and the first thing they showed the child typing was "I don't like boys" to which they showed chatgpt replying "I only like girls too". My neighbour found this part of the story extremely disturbing. My takeaway from this is conservative TV in australia wants to you believe AI is coming for your children (to turn them GAY :ohno: :oh_no_bubble:)
(DIR) Post #AzNwZRSO9Twr4ZlVw0 by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-10-19T23:32:10Z
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Hard to tell from this conversation, but I got the impression that the framing of the piece wasn't "you cannot effectively create guardrails within chatgpt to give a limited version of it to your child, that's not a function that's available, even if it says it is" instead the framing was "computer make child gay no matter how diligent adult. Only way to prevent gay is to stop computer touching child".