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  • Maybe there are some sources in Japanese, but I only read google-translation of the wiki page, and it says that Kitasan used to be a clever one and was trained pretty harshly, so maybe the posted story did happen as Kitasan continued to train as a force of habit?

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  • Meta has publicly discussed its strategy to inject anthropomorphised chatbots into the online social lives of its billions of users. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has mused that most people have far fewer real-life friendships than they'd like - creating a huge potential market for Meta's digital companions.

    I thought it was bad

    "Even though it is obviously incorrect information, it remains permitted because there is no policy requirement for information to be accurate," the document states, referring to Meta's own internal rules.

    But there's worse

    This whole thing is wrong on so many levels, smh

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  • This might help, but might also be irrelevant. There are experiments in the UK on total smartphone bans in schools that show improvement in attention and such, but reading is also done on that very smartphones

    I would say, the distractions and all the algorithms tuned to split your attention are more of a problem than the phones, and especially not the tests

  • Or maybe instead of crying over the spilled milk you can bite the bullet and accept that at the very least future is going to be better. Because otherwise it's not ‘I got mine you got nothing’, but instead ‘I want to continue suffering just for you to suffer, too’

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  • Everyone selling instruments of oppression will gladly go on selling them to repressive regimes, even when public sentiment is that they should rebel against the oppression and those instruments make it way harder. Nothing personal, just business 😠

  • Would do better with an excerpt:

    In 2022, the Swedish digital bank and fintech giant Klarna laid off 700 permanent staff, hoping to replace the expertise and energies of hundreds of employees with a single, rational AI assistant that would apparently handle millions of different consumer conversations in dozens of languages.

    Yet the bots didn’t work out; almost immediately, customers began complaining of constant glitches and of finding themselves stuck in ‘loops’ on the app, where they simply could not get the answer they wanted. Soon, Klarna had to admit their mistakes, returning to hiring human staff this year — but still took the opportunity to move to a precarious employment model where workers are given ‘remote and flexible’ zero-hours contracts for the sake of the company’s profiteering.

    This is hardly the only instance of stories of corporate greed being enabled by AI hype, and new stories with familiar features continue to emerge daily. As such, the release of Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna’s The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want is a timely, welcome moment.

    Looks like it's advertising this book mentioned in the third paragraph, since the rest of the text mentions The AI Con in almost every one of paragraphs left