Post by @glyph@mastodon.social

2026-10-26 04:02 UTC

@kims@mas.to @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io I don't want to be throwing shade at the reporter here but it's also notable that nobody involved clocked the fact that "empathetic, creative, animal lover" has some heavily gendered vibes to it. maybe that is a 100% accurate description of her daughter but it comes across as the sort of thing that a very sexist AI would attribute to a nondescript girl with zero information, as opposed to e.g. "brave, inventive, confident" for a boy or something

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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-10-26 04:03

@kims@mas.to @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io like I was reading the entire article waiting for the other shoe to drop given that this is an article about sexism and technology and in the first paragraph we have a 4k picture of some technology doing something that reads as quite sexist with no additional information

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@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io 2026-10-26 04:05

@glyph@mastodon.social @kims@mas.to It’s kind of a layer cake of WTF. The AI, one of the most expensive creations in the history of human invention, spits out an utterly generic, heavily gendered response. And then Mayer, who presumably has met her daughter at some point, looks at that response and thinks “it knows my girl better than I do”

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@woe2you@beige.party 2026-10-26 12:50

@glyph@mastodon.social @kims@mas.to @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io I do want to be throwing shade at the reporter here. "I can't think of three things that make my child special" is an absolutely unhinged thing for a parent to say and it's just glossed over like it's nothing.

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@EricaFriedman@mastodon.social 2026-10-26 13:24

@glyph@mastodon.social @kims@mas.to @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io That pinged immediately. A very generic "girl child" description that, should anyone have ever used about me as a child I would have ripped their throat out.

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