Post B4Mg2XvSGZFyxFoL0i by ska@social.treehouse.systems
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 (DIR) Post #B4MbFibzLbwe5gARBw by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       *clicks onto linkedin*> half the posts are from techbro *men* talking about their AI pals that they have made> some of their AI pals are depicted with early 20s female avatars> the techbros are 50+ years old*clicks off of linkedin in disgust*
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MbS9oO2oydvOtj3g by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       wasn't there a kinda shitty movie about this?  ex machina or something?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MbmdmALdoQeHcsuu by grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
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       @ariadne I enjoyed the film.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Mbp5h7WC5loeR09g by arch@floofy.tech
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       @ariadne "Her"? :P
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MbrNDbKsqykDiQrI by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       @grahamperrin can we get to the 'find out' part of the film where the AI sex bot wants to kill the person giving the bot the """turing test"""
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Mc3eCW1N9qtE3oJs by grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
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       @ariadne I can't remember it was """a while ago""". I do remember liking the architecture, the woodland setting, and so on, although I wouldn't really want to live anywhere so sterile.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4McITsSgZlTDRkmn2 by dvshkn@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne https://www.404media.co/business-insider-founder-creates-ai-exec-for-his-new-newsroom-immediately-hits-on-her/
       
 (DIR) Post #B4McYcipZLpzHRwjFg by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       so if you sexually harass your AI assistant at work, does it report you to HR?  asking for all the guys on linkedin who seem to like their AI assistants a little too much
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Md1k1hUUQmKfemlE by astraleureka@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne worse than kent?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MdiHKK4TBbm3eOOW by lucky@mastodon.nz
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       @ariadne this is actually the one use case for AI, they're like a grease trap for sexual harassment
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MeOBFX3Z2Z5XOFcW by faoluin@chitter.xyz
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       @ariadne I'd take Ex Machina over this timeline. The robot wins and the techbros get their comeuppance.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MflsRciybVfauQb2 by ska@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne look, I'm all for giving these guys AI sexbots if it makes them leave real women alone
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Mfp4b207mGE6pjkW by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ska on one hand, valid, but on the other, it tells us what they really want out of these things
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Mg2XvSGZFyxFoL0i by ska@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne Ex Machina was a good movie, the only unrealistic thing was that the techbro was the cautious one and didn't get bamboozled by his creation.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MgEFZELer7UYzqAC by equinox@chaos.social
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       @ariadne @ska I'd be perfectly happy if they only wanted that out of these *things*. Like, let them have at it. Unfortunately I'm afraid it also tells us what they want out of *people*. And humanizing those pieces of software also dehumanizes actual people.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MgKEOPczdzaRmwJE by dr2chase@ohai.social
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       @ariadne  "does that movie have a 'happy ending'?"
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Mgw5bgk3oHLH3BLc by ska@social.treehouse.systems
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       @dalias @ariadne Sure. But you could say the same thing about porn, which I see as a net positive for society, because imagine guys without that outlet.I think that guys who want that kind of power will want it anyway, and letting them have some sort of substitute minimizes harm. I may be wrong about this. I'm not recommending we set up scientific trials to study what the net result is.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Mht2cnTNQxB8gB16 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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       @dalias @ska @ariadne Also I think there's a bit about (re)presentation, like if in-story sex crimes makes audience/characters afraid of consequences or actually jailed is different from the various kinds of horrors some probably want.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Mj9bMaBRj7VPYVVY by ska@social.treehouse.systems
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       @dalias @ariadne Yeah I thought it was obvious that the issue with CSAM is production, and its consumption is bad because it's an incentive to produce more.I don't know how I really feel about AI-generated CSAM, if that's a thing (who are we kidding, of course that's a thing). Disgusted, certainly, but I kinda see it as "sick" more than "evil", if that makes sense.