Post #2358372
2026-01-10 02:25 UTC
Replies (3)
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@jjcelery@mastodon.ie 2026-01-10 02:32
@luna@post.airsi.de and to go further, people aren't "infected" with LLMs. It's not a disease. It's not communicable. There's no direct physical hurt, and also no doctors, no cures, and no vaccines. People don't seek help for something they believe is helping them. We must be careful with our language around all this, even in metaphor. (I say this fully aware of my own metaphor and taking my own liberties, but there's seriousness, and there's jest.) https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/
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@TazPoltorak@fosstodon.org 2026-01-10 06:07
@jjcelery@mastodon.ie @luna@post.airsi.de I want an evil amulet now. Not an LLM but maybe a monkey paw.
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@Rycochet@furs.social 2026-01-10 11:30
@jjcelery@mastodon.ie @luna@post.airsi.de The thing that terrifies me the most is that some very malevolent people are in charge of the sweet nothings that are being whispered. Elon is open about it and doing a terrible job as a result, but the people in charge of the other LLM chatbots aren't any better? Zuckerberg rotted the minds of boomers and ran experiments intentionally trying to make people unhappy using his platform, Microsoft and Google bend the knee to fascism at every turn, Altman is an amoral crypto scammer, Bezos is Bezos... And so on. None of these people should be trusted to look after a hamster, but they're getting to filter reality and whisper whatever it will take to control people for personal gain.