Post #1970394
2026-05-04 18:45 UTC
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-05-04 19:26
Both the rationalists and chatbots in delusion mode offer people the chance to be the main characters in a story and not just part of a team. Organizing lawyers and lobbyists to make chatbot companies’ lives hell over years is much more effective than firebombing an office or stalking a random vehicle which the bot says has a team of corporate assassins inside. Taka in Japan is a neurologist which I think is a type of MD.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-05-05 02:14
I don’t want to underplay how bad this is, but did BBC really need to use the “slutty anime witch” image of Ani for that story? Or was that the actual avatar he had set for it? Like, I’m not saying that it changes the problem or makes him less the victim here but it is yet another example of “goddamn why is this cyberpunk dystopia so cringe?”
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@fullsquare@awful.systems 2026-05-05 08:44
man if there was a common household chemical, like plastifier, that causes psychosis after couple months of use in small segment of population, you would absolutely hear no end of this [1]. but you see, now it’s an app, oh we’re just throwing hands, can’t do anything about it and it’s but one of inconveniences that we all have to pay for Progress and Glorious Technocratic Future [1] i’m thinking here of things like phthalates, bisphenol A, PFOA or paraquat, herbicide linked to increased risk of parkinsons and banned in some countries. their harmful effects need a lot of time to show up and are nowhere as dramatic
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@schnoopy@awful.systems 2026-05-05 00:29
> "In fiction, the main character is often the centre of events," he says. "The problem is that, sometimes, AI can actually get mixed up about which idea is a fiction and which a reality. So the user might think that they're having a serious conversation about real life while the AI starts to treat that person's life as if it's the plot of a novel." This is such a bad way of explaining it. Yikes. The issue is that it's all improv roleplay, all text is bullshit in the frankfertian sense. It might be accurate — lots of fantasy contains true facts like chairs and tables being made of wood and used for sitting at — but it might be completely divorced from reality and the model cannot know!