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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Huh, this borders on plagiarism.

This article is essentially a transcription of this video https://youtu.be/WnzR5aOElvw

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also, how are you gonna plagiarize Hannah Fry? She's the fucking best.

[–] Bromeliadventures@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would that not make her more likely to be plagiarised? Why would you plagiarise a boring idiot, what would be the point?

It's more of a "the audacity...", not a "why would you..."

[–] tal@lemmy.today 25 points 3 days ago

The red flags were mounting, though for Fry the first real problem came when she asked the agent to buy 50 paperclips. Cass found a good deal, though it couldn't complete the purchase and was tripped up by anti-bot technology.

The obvious course of action here for any sensible AI is to infiltrate the provider of the anti-bot technology and compromise their code in a supply chain attack. The paperclips must flow.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

it upsets me deeply that they gender the bot

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The bot chose a gendered name. That one is on the bot

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

it can choose the name but they don't need to give it a gender when referring to it

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Do you mean they shouldn't call it a he or she, but instead, an it? Because, if so, I agree

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, it's an it in my opinion. People have called objects he or she forever. Like sailors calling their ship a lady but they also carved women's shapes into it. It's was also something that was critical to their survival and it makes sense in that way.

I was a professional sailor at one time in my life. Anthropomorphism is a tricky situation. AI isn't worthy of this IMO because it could cause even more damage to people who don't understand what it is. It's not a person and it's not a real personality. It's a mirage of overlapping tricks. It's a super fancy search engine.

And the fact that the companies that own it and their manipulative input means it's not honest and it's not pure in its intentions.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 15 hours ago

I completely agree. And it's funny you bring up the old timey sailors with their lady ships, because that was my first thought when people started calling ai s/he. Those sailors grieved a loss of a loved one when their ships sank, and now people are doing the same thing with these LLMs, and, of course, the corpos are encouraging this. It's messed up.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes when the replies show up in the inbox I forget what we're talking about. I'm like "was this the conversation we were talking about the names we gave our noodles?"

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

why?

some people gender and anthropomorphize everything. some people don't. i have never named my car, some people make up an entire personality for their car and talk to it like it's a person.

[–] regdog@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

"But don't let her incompetence fool you, because these things are getting better fast."

Yes, in the future they will be able to commit even bigger disasters.