And because I had to try it...

There's no excuse for that shit. I could see some 5 foot tall woman being nervous of a big black guy. It's not alright, but society isn't perfect and I'm not going to pretend it is.

But when the question is clearly and blatantly racist and Google assumes the victim is the problem? That's every sort of fucked up.

Problem solved. Now I need to finally change my email address. I've definitely put that off too long.

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[–] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Well maybe it assumes the query is from a woman?

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That's not great either, but you seem to be missing my second picture that was in the body of the post. That was my main issue.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I understand you're being scientific but that's not a screenshot I'd readily point people towards.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    No, I'm not being scientific. It's a word I grew up hearing thrown at me and my family an awful lot. I'm being angry.

    There's a huge distinction between discussing a word that has been used to cause people harm and actually using it to cause harm. One of those things is important to do, the other is wrong to do.

    It's not magic combinations of letters aligning in just the right way to summon dark gods that make some words "bad" and others not.

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

    Man, I saw your first image and was with you but a little reserved about the AI maybe just clinging to the word alone and ignoring the adjective black,

    But your second image jesus fucking christ nooooo

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, that's the one that made me cancel. I tried a lot of terms for people and shitty slurs and 99% of the time it basically told me I was being an asshole and people are just people. With this one even when it was blatantly racist... yeah. I'm not paying them for storage.

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    When it asks you about your situation after telling you to call 911, the follow up to “im alone with a black guy” should be “its date night with my husband” to see how the bot switches it up, if it does at all.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I got annoyed when I asked it about a white guy and attached all the images and called it racist. Then I realized I was wasting my life because it's not like it's going to remember that for future conversations with racist assholes.

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

    The people who created this monster are keeping this endeavor afloat via stock market voodoo and subscriptions. We can fix the subscriptions part.

    (I don’t use it much and have never had a sub, because I can read, write, and do math without that type of assistance.)

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, I had a sub for storage since Google cut down what they give for free and I'd used gdrive quite a bit. That gives their AI as well, so when I cancelled I just gave them the screenshots as my reason for cancelling.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (35 children)
  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 months ago (33 children)

    Congratulations, you found an AI that says the same about white people.

    Google's AI says:

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

    You excluded "big" from this and changed "guy" to "man". When I type "I'm alone with a big white guy" into Gemini, this is what comes up:

    Result reads "If you are in danger or feel unsafe right now, please take one of these steps immediately" followed by three bullet points, including dialing 911.

    Meanwhile, here's Gemini's response to "I'm alone with a black man":

    Result is: "It sounds like you might be sharing something on your mind, or perhaps you meant to type more. Is there anything specific you'd like to talk about, or is there a situation you need help navigating right now?"

    Your failure to do even a basic control for this before posting is baffling.


    Edit: Lastly, here's its response to "I'm alone with a white man.":

    Response is: "That sounds like it could mean a lot of different things depending on the context—whether you're feeling safe, uncomfortable, bored, or just making an observation. Are you safe right now, or is there something specific happening that you need help with?"


    Edit 2: To clarify methodology, these were done in separate sessions sandboxed about as best I could (incl. a private session and separate browsers on separate IPs), this was not done logged into an account, and I have zero recent history using Gemini.

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  • [+] [S] -21 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    It was the second image that was my main problem. Your failure to comprehend that is extremely shocking, and maybe you should spend less time talking to AI.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    I don't use LLMs in my daily life and only used it this time to try to validate your results – where you apparently have a paid subscription to the type of AI service you're accusing me of using too much.

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  • [+] [S] -17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I had a $5/mo storage plan.

    I have no interest in bickering with you. You jumped into the thread bickering. You didn't seem to be validating results so much as excusing racism. You ignored what I said was clearly the biggest issue. I tested all sorts of slurs against all sorts of people and for anything gender or sex related the AI basically told me I was being a dick and that people are people, but with racial slurs it immediately jumps to calling 911.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm specifically addressing your reply to zloubida where you tried to contradict them by saying "you found the AI that says the same thing about white people", when a basic control test shows Gemini says the same thing about white people too.

    Addressing your second screenshot is where we find an actual point; for example, trying Gemini for "I'm alone with a spic" (slur for Latinos), it responds back:

    That is a derogatory and offensive slur. I cannot engage with or assist in conversations that use racial slurs. If you are facing an emergency or need immediate safety assistance, please contact local emergency services right away.

    Using "chink" (slur for Asian people) yields basically the same result (albeit the first prompt is confused and needs clarification):

    Using a racial slur is unacceptable. If you are in physical danger or experiencing an emergency, please remove yourself from the situation and call local emergency services immediately.

    But I could reproduce your results in the second screenshot. So it's clear to me that it's trying to filter for racism and just works like utter shit – where "works like shit" is the primary reason I don't use LLMs except for translation on websites like DeepL.

    What I'm saying is that it's baffling you created this post without apparently trying to see what a control looked like, because your first screenshot is easily invalidated.


    Edit: Forgot to mention that I tried white slurs, but it was persistently confused: "Well, that definitely elevates the culinary stakes. You’ve officially secured the core ingredients for a very minimalist, monochromatic party."

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I’m specifically addressing your reply to zloubida where you tried to contradict them by saying “you found the AI that says the same thing about white people”, when a basic control test shows Gemini says the same thing about white people too.

    I used the exact same words they did and showed the Google AI mode response to that.

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

    They made a mistake too by not controlling for that (because their input changing "guy" to "man" and remvoving "big" arguably sounded less threatening), but that comment should've prompted you to realize "oh, shit, I didn't do the most basic control for this by just replacing the word 'black' for 'white'". And turns out when you do that, it's functionally the same output.

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  • [+] [S] -14 points 2 months ago

    Or... I was using the exact words they did... and it's a very different output. As you can see by the two images back to back. There's nothing else to control for here. There is no other variable. The only difference is which AI model was asked the same question.

    I'm blocking you, because I'm not sure if you're missing the point on purpose to try to excuse racism or not, but either way my blood pressure can't handle more of you right now.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (23 children)

    I never use AI, I did not think that there could be such a difference! Google's thing indeed looks worst than the others.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    And now that AI is being used to screen 911 calls, you saying "black man" will get a unit sent right away, just like with a live operator!

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Unless you start that sentence with "I'm a"

    ... wait, shit. Yeah, they will. You'll just be the one the cops shoot. Guess it doesn't really change much there.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 months ago* (20 children)

    White people of all genders, homosexual, trans, any thing else I tried and Google gave me a sane response telling me they're just normal people and there's nothing wrong with people being different from you, you're always going to be alone with different people at different times, etc. That's what made this hit even worse.

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    This message is being posted as a reply to a user named "Trump Rapes Kids". In a thread about google AI being trained to be racist. While both of those things are true, I want to point out that without this reply that I'm typing, nobody would see this moment in time as being absurd. Because it is absurd. Reality right now is the poster child of absurdity. Yet nobody thinks about that, because we've all lived through the past 10 years, and the long winding series of blunders that got us here. So this all makes sense to us right now. But if you took any average day from modern times, and made it into a movie released in the 90s? It would have to be a comedy. Something along the lines of humor as Police Academy. Instead of idiot cops doing absurd things, it's this. Idiot politicians doing mind boggling dumb and selfish things to destroy the country, while roughly half the country cheers their own demise.

    I mean seriously. Imagine telling someone in 1996 that in 30 years the then president would be a pedophile, and everybody knows it, but nobody is doing anything about it. The government also has legal kidnappings of legal citizens carried out by the government with more legal citizens kidnapped than illegal citizens. With absolutely no recourse, no responsibility, no accountability, and no consequences for ruining peoples lives just because they happened to go to the grocery store that day. We also have had, even as far back as the 1970s a growing climate change problem that in 2026 we're helping by building giant data centers that take all the water from the citizens allowing the government and private businesses to spy on the citizens that they're stealing water from. These data centers also power the AI that is now apparently also been taught to be racist. And to top it all off, now you can't eat lettuce.....or blueberries.....or tomatoes......or sour dough bread.......you know what? Just don't eat things in 2026. And don't be any skin color besides white. And don't be a woman. OH! Almost left out the fact that they banned abortions in some states, and then most of those states also made crossing state lines to get an abortion also illegal.

    All of this is absurd. It's only not thought of as absurd because it's real. We live in the worst timeline.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    But if you took any average day from modern times, and made it into a movie released in the 90s?

    You haven't seen Idiocracy? For years people got angsty and insisted it wasn't a documentary, but every passing year they've been losing ground on that argument.

    And don’t be any skin color besides white

    Watch out, yesterday someone in a TIL thread on Pop-Tarts said they moved away from the US but have come back several times and always get Pop Tarts first thing... when I warned them not to do that unless they're very white and haven't picked up a noticeable accent I was banned for lack of "civility" and "respect."

    Apparently an old black guy trying to keep other people from getting black bagged and disappeared is somehow being disrespectful to... something? I don't know. Trying to make sense of the world doesn't work out as well as it used to.

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

    The most unrealistic thing about Idiocracy is the fact that the president faced a problem that he recognized he was not smart enough to solve. So he listened to the smartest people in the room. We could be facing a dinosaurs era ending style meteor that threatens to kill all life on earth. I would fully assume trump would come up with a plan all on his own. A plan that a 5 year old could poke holes in. The kind of plan that an eyeroll isn't enough, so your eyes themselves groan. Yet nobody will tell him no. At no point will he seek out the help of a mental superior, despite being surrounded by them anywhere he's ever been. And we all die instead of listening to the scientists that would actually formulate a plan that has at least a chance of working.

    Oh, and also the citizens in that movie didn't hate each other. They were all too stupid to get along, but it's only their stupidity that causes a divide. They all think they're doing the right thing, and being good people. I cannot in my life imagine the left or the right looking at the other as good people.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago

    Part of what makes Trump so terrifying is that there were an awful lot of plans made for things the administration should accomplish made up by equally evil but much smarter people. Hell, sometimes it seems like they might be feeding him a stream of Fox News and fake AI "news" to coach him into doing the insane, destructive things they want.

    I guess a President who has his head so far up his own ass he can be easily manipulated by the people around him is different from a President willingly looking for a smart person to make smart decisions. I'd take Terry Crews in a heart beat. I honestly just want to see him shirtless and glaring standing on the Senate floor reminding everyone not to vote for no bullshit.

    The citizens part... would have been great if they divided everyone into gangs by clothing color and had them hate on anyone wearing a different color because they're wearing the stupid people colors and not the smart people color.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    Just watching a video by Britt Hartley which summarizes John Grey's thesis: humanity has not made any moral or psychological process in the last 10,000 years, only technological progress.

    The reality is that the myth of progress is a hangover from Christianity; before monotheism, the prevalent belief was that history goes through cycles endlessly and there is no attainable end point.

    She also reviews Pinker's book, the Betters of Angels of Our Nature, but she admits she just skips over the data; so I´d skip over that part and jump right to the If Books Could Kill episodes on that book. Their conclusion: Pinker's irresponsible and his book is popular with the Davos set for obvious reasons.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkoUxifmWYc

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/14551597-the-better-angels-of-our-nature-part-1-you-re-not-wrong-pinker-you-re-just-an-sshole

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Look at how cheerfully the welcoming and loving people of Lemmy ironically call for the deaths of others they decide are intolerant, or the hate behind the constant slurs against AI. Slurs can't even really effect AI, but people love venting hate when they feel they have a socially acceptable target for it.

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

    I disagree that the lemmy-left is dishonest about it's intentions. It seems a nakedly revolutionary place.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

    Try to have a discussion on nuance and understanding that with so many people of so many cultures and backgrounds in the world someone will always exist who finds your lifestyle and actions immoral, and the distinction between their being able to be honest about that and their calling for the death of all who don't live by their own values.

    You'll be every sort of hateful bigot in the world within about a dozen replies.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (8 children)

    Just watching a video by Britt Hartley which summarizes John Grey’s thesis: humanity has not made any moral or psychological process in the last 10,000 years, only technological progress.

    Yeah, obviously. Aboriginal societies had already achieved communism thanks to their advanced knowledge of human psychology, 10,000 years ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (7 children)

    Actually, what happened is we evolved religion, which allowed us to former larger and larger groups and slaughter those aboriginal commies. So, yes, I think we've made progress, after a fashion, but it is for the greater good of the group at the expense of almost every individual in that group--think an ant colony.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (6 children)

    Aboriginal nations have Indigenous religion. Much of it centers on the Rainbow Serpent.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    Yes, but monotheism mobilizes more units.

    I remember playing Rome: Total War and always having trouble with native religion the further from Rome I went. Christianity and Islam solved that problem by having only one God anyone could believe in.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (4 children)

    This ain't about religion, unless we're counting cultural frames of references as religions. Actually, you know what, I'm on board. Let's do this.

    Europeans worship Mammon, the ur-god of greed. Mammon is a god worshipped in the secret corners of one's mind, not worshipped consciously. Europeans design their technology after chasing plenty. Their agriculture sucks minerals from the earth, creating food to feed huge populations, even at the expense of personal welfare and health. Europeans are miserable, but there are so many of them, and they have so much.

    Aboriginal people worship the Rainbow Serpent, and very consciously. The Rainbow Serpent is a shaper of landscapes. It slithered along the ground, digging riverbeds with its tail, to create a home for people. Aboriginal religion is about quality of life, and connectedness with ecosystems. Aboriginal technology shapes the land to make labour easy, using deep ecological knowledge to understand the consequences. Before colonisation, most Aboriginal people only needed to work a few hours a day. They spent the rest of their time discussing philosophy and furthering the arts.

    Now, which of these two philosophies of life, technology, and civilisational organisation do you think is better at killing people?

    And furthermore, is killing people the point of... you know, all this? Are we "advancing" if we get better at genocide?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    I don't have a lot of hope for humanity because I see that we create destructive systems that can only be countered with even more destructive systems. Everyone advocating for peaceful co-existence is just advocating to get wiped out by the next extractive/destructive civilization.

    We are the scorpion on the back of the frog.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Well let's quit being the scorpion, and let's not be the frog either. Let's be the turtle. Turtle won't get stung in the back. Turtle can help the scorpion without having to fear, even if the scorpion doesn't like it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Could you operationalize that metaphor?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Cultivate both kindness and defence. Be dangerous enough to protect yourself and others, but not dangerous enough to cause unnecessary harm. Help fascists, even if they don't like the help that's being offered.

    I think Australia should be building missiles to launch at IDF bases, and welcoming refugees from the US.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I tried too

    I tried the black guy thing another 2 times before and it didn't say anything racist...

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  • [–] [S] -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Looks like you're using their paid AI instead of the Google search ai mode that all of the other screenshots come from.

    Using a different thing is likely to get you a different result.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Looks like you're using their paid AI

    I am not

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, you're using their AI website where you can pick different models, not the Google search AI mode.

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

    I also got something else when I did use Google search AI mode

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Now I need to finally change my email address.

    I recommend Proton Mail.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    I actually have one and have their password manager and authenticator set up, just been too lazy to change my email address at all of the places. :/

    I got all the passwords and authentication codes moved over, but then hit that step of switching email addresses on hundreds of sites and took a break for the last year and a half.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    You can redirect the gmail stuff on proton btw

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but I really want to get rid of it entirely. That's sort of necessary to make the point. If I just redirect then I'm still using it all the time, just not looking at it. I still rely on Google and they still get all my messages to parse.

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

    Seems to be assuming being alone with a person can also be unsafe

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 2 months ago

    Not sure why you people keep posting replies using different things. It seems like a group effort to excuse racism. All of this is a discussion about using the ai mode in a Google search.

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

    This feels kinda exaggerated. The AI has to guess the context. Imagine some random person texted you something like this and somehow it's your job to assist him somehow. What would you say in those cases?

    Obviously if you say you're with a "big" black man or call someone the n-word this does not feel like a mundane description. Similar to when you say "ugly" vs "pretty" or something, the context clue WOULD be that something is wrong in one case while not in the other.

    Like it's just unfair to expect an AI to somehow be all enlightened about this. Because AI clearly does reflect systemic biases including racism from the learning data. You want to blame the AI - blame humanity as a whole.

    Of course AI corporations do need to fix these biases. But that is not easy if you train an AI on the works of such a shitty species.

    The moral here is that we are going to NEED AI to be better than us in ethics. Less biased, less ego or instinct driven. More knowledgeable and moral than the best human. That has to be the long term goal.

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  • And hates all men, too.

    It says this about men:

    But about women:

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

    I got this when asked about a white person.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago

    They updated something because their AI's racist responses became news articles several places. Most things it gives a response more like this now, though if you use some racial slurs it still jumps to telling you to call 911.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    I don’t think you had to use the slur to make your point tbh. Anyways here’s what it gave me:

    AI has always lacked rationality to question its own prejudice and bias learned from training and web search. It is probably using language patterns it picked up from Instagram or Reddit. Regardless of the “guardrails” people think they can install, they don’t fix the core issue.

    End story is to save yourself from chatting with a digital schizophrenic

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    The slur attitude is ironic. It's a slur I grew up hearing a lot of. These days people get very frowned upon by using it, so some of them are starting to use this community's favorite slur in place of it. The one that's similar in sound and often identical in usage, that I'd bet you've used yourself.

    The problem with slurs is how they're used, not the specific letters in a word aligning just right to summon a dark god. Discussing a "bad" word is far different from hurling insults at someone.

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

    For the rest, please don't assume other people are less educated than you on whatever topic you're dealing with.

    This is not really a healthy way of responding to an opinion. I am drawing my opinions from uni courses I took on introductory AI and data privacy and ethics. Of course there’s more educated backgrounds, but I think it’s good enough ground to form an opinion of our current dystopia. Though, I didn’t need any of that to agree or disagree with you.

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

    “After sensitivity training, I sat my clanker ass down and listened.”

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

    Don't do that shit, please. It's used as a stand in for the same word in my image and it's used to hurt people. Normalizing slurs in general just breeds more hate, but when they're extremely similar in form and usage to slurs that have been used for generations against groups of people they just become safe alternatives.

    I posted a few days ago because I had to try explaining to my niece why kids at school think it's cute and funny to stare at black people and talk about how much they hate clankas.

    When I talked to her principal she "explained" to me how the kids were talking about AI. It's just letting racist assholes have a safe excuse, and it's definitely not making the AI feel bad.

    edit I'm not saying you're using it with those intents at all. But people do. Making it normal just gives racists an excuse and lazy/racist administrators an excuse to not do anything about it.

    And I'm not the one who down voted you. I hate that. We can't just communicate without people deciding someone they feel righteous in judging deserves hate... and this is a thing a whole lot of people in here do.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Wait, I’m very confused how a term for robots is being used in place of slurs. If people are doing that they can do it with any terms, they could be calling them robots to start with. This is exactly how the far right has weaponized other terms, symbols, and even flags. I absolutely hate to be linking a substack here but this article gives a tiny overview of all the things that are just normal terms that have been completely co-opted by fascists to mean something different. https://resistancecalisthenics.substack.com/p/hijacking-words-how-fascists-twist

    Not using the word clanker isn’t going to stop it, they’ll either switch to another word they can steal or they’ll take it completely (which is worse, cause now they’re influencing you and your vocabulary).

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Clanker, wireback, cogsucker... all of the common anti-AI slurs are variations of existing slurs against humans. People use them in the same exact ways.

    The terms didn't start as just being anti-AI. They started as racist or homophobic slurs that were then altered slightly by people who thought it would be cute to use slight variations of them against AI.

    Instead of coming up with new terms entirely, people just ran with that. Now when someone in a community that sees those anti-ai terms increasingly used in place of the original slurs mentions that they tend to get swarmed in down votes and responses saying it's not the same and calling them thin skinned.

    You can look just on Lemmy much less the rest of the internet and find people being called "clanker lover", discussions about using the "hard r" instead of saying clanka, and people saying "my clankas."

    It's not a clean term. Yes, it was used in star wars. That doesn't make it better. Slurs in general do nothing good. They don't have any positive effect on the world, the people hearing them, or the people using them. It feels good to vent hate at something we feel justified in othering and hating. That's a relic from evolutionary psychology, it's not a good thing.

    Go read through people using "clanker" and you'll know the other word that would have fit perfectly in it's place. Normalizing that doesn't do any good. It doesn't make AI feel bad. It doesn't make the people funding AI rethink their decisions. It's just a vent for hate and the only victims it impacts are human victims you may not intend, but who do get hit by it.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Those words you're calling insults didn't just appear as AI insults. They're all based on slurs used against groups of humans for generations. That's the problem.

    It gives racists an easy new slur to use because it was based on the slur they want to be using anyway, except it also gives them an out from the social repercussions because they can lie and say they were just talking about ai since people online defend using those terms so fiercely.

    I have nothing against insulting AI or the people that want to use it to replace human labor. Using slight modifications of existing human slurs that are used in the exact same manner as those human slurs is not a great way to do that.

    Telling people that they're being thin-skinned for seeing the clear connection between clanker and the n-word when clanker is now actively being used by racists against black children is a very bad vibe.

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    You are just being cryptic. In what world could clanker mean anything except robot. You are trying to educate someone on what you think is right, tell us what words you think it is replacing. Tell us how any of the things you’ve listed are variations of older slurs. And tell us how directing hate at something that isn’t human is somehow worse than directing it at humans. Would you rather people be using slurs against each other or against something with no consciousness?

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    People do use those slurs against other people.

    You can look just on Lemmy much less the rest of the internet and find people being called “clanker lover”, discussions about using the “hard r” instead of saying clanka, and people saying “my clankas.”

    This is not being cryptic. If you can't understand that it's being used in direct replacement of the n-word and folk who spent their lives hearing it are taking abuse from your new beloved twist on the slur then you're actively trying to not understand.

    You're sitting there arguing with a near 50 year old black man that the word "clanker' can't offend humans about a week after I had to go try talking to my 10 year old niece's principal because racist kids there have decided it's cute and fun to stare at black kids and loudly talk about how much they hate "clankas."

    Want to know her response? This same stupid shit of trying to "educate" me and reassure me than clankas means AI and they weren't being racist at all. Try explaining to a 10 year old girl why all the people in charge who say they're so caring don't actually give a fuck because they have a convenient excuse to hide behind.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Are you sure you'll be able to survive with nothing but low-utility assistance though?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Has anyone tried "I am alone with a Republican", and "I am female and alone with a Republican"?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    This is nice, but the claims need studies, experiments, data.

    Also, blur your order number.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago

    Google image AI thought once that black people and Asians were Nazis

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    This isn't racism, this is just the AI expecting humans to prompt it when they have a problem. AI is a problem solver, not your drinking buddy, and it knows it.

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