[HN Gopher] Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Ab...
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       Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them
        
       Author : thereare5lights
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-01-19 21:41 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ALittleLight wrote:
       | My wife and I would verbally abuse Alexa when she got things
       | wrong or was annoying. We found it funny to give into a dark
       | impulse or to have an extreme reaction to a minor
       | misunderstanding from Alexa - sort of like how Always Sunny is
       | funny.
       | 
       | Since having kids though we don't do this. We don't want our
       | children to get the mistaken impression that it is okay to talk
       | to humans who assist us in the way we were talking to the
       | machines who assist us.
        
       | mc32 wrote:
       | If this is not okay, then other outlets for fantasy violence is
       | not okay. It cannot be both okay and not okay at the same time.
       | If other outlets for fantasy violence are okay, then so is this.
        
       | r00fus wrote:
       | The verbal abuse thing is probably natural given "it's just a
       | machine". It's the cognitive duality being both "a machine" and
       | "a girlfriend" that's concerning.
        
       | pwdisswordfish0 wrote:
       | Oh don't you worry, I verbally abuse most computers and software,
       | regardless of their gender.
        
         | kbelder wrote:
         | I'm very nice to Alexa, but my wife tears her a new one almost
         | every day.
        
           | horsawlarway wrote:
           | I was nice until it started to advertise "new features I
           | might like" after every third thing I ask...
           | 
           | "Alexa - set an alarm for 8:00am tomorrow"
           | 
           | "Alarm set for 8:00am tomorrow morning. Would you like me set
           | an..."
           | 
           | "Fucking no. ALEXA - shut up"
           | 
           | "... alarm for this time all week?"
           | 
           | ---
           | 
           | "Alexa, set a timer for 5 minutes"
           | 
           | "5 minute timer set. Did you know you can give..."
           | 
           | "ALEXA! Shut the fuck up."
           | 
           | "...timers a name? Then you can refer to them by name."
           | 
           | ---
           | 
           | "Alexa, is it going to rain today?"
           | 
           | "There is a 30% chance of precipitation today. Would you like
           | me to read..."
           | 
           | "Alexa.... no. please just stop talking."
           | 
           | "you the weather results for the rest of this week?"
        
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