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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months 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.

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