Fucking shit, I hate modern news

He and Linda began dating in the 1980s...He was a chef by then. He’d arrived in the United States from Thailand, speaking no English and washing dishes to pay for an electrical engineering degree.

This is the most shocking part of this story to me...

The family responding that they’re perfectly fine with AI but just wish it hadn’t lied, like… we’re fucked. Not even direct victims of AI’s bullshit understand or care about how fucked up and these corporate generative AI technologies are… again, fucked.

Damn ai already started taking us out?

Extremely misleading headline. He, “never returned”, because he tripped and fell in a parking lot. Unfortunately, he succumbed to the fall injuries days later. The headline makes it sounds like the AI killed him or created some plot to do so.

As much as I want to clown on this 76 yr old man trying to cheat on his wife with a younger woman, the fact that a chatbot did this is terrifying.

Welp, back to bars people. You know. Actual interaction.

Are fucked are we that GenAI chatbots have been around for 15min and we already have WAY too many stories of people falling over themselves to get into bad situations?

Like, they know they’re fake from the outset and then just get so swept up in it that they’ll believe anything. Some are not 100%, mentally, like Bue here but others are seemingly ok and they still fall for it?! What the hell?!

We've been looking for how we can get our boomers to give up the high paying jobs they are refusing to retire from and the real estate they have been hoarding like dragons and we finally have the answer: AI catfishing is here to save us.

what an absolutly disturbing read

The story featured in this article is very tragic, but some of these quotes from Zuckerborg are completely outrageous:

Meta has publicly discussed its strategy to inject anthropomorphized 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. The bots “probably” won’t replace human relationships, he said in an April interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. But they will likely complement users’ social lives once the technology improves and the “stigma” of socially bonding with digital companions fades.

“Over time, we’ll find the vocabulary as a society to be able to articulate why that is valuable,” Zuckerberg predicted.

It sure as shit is valuable to ZuckFuck and Co's stock prices. Our collective sanity and social cohesion can fuck right off.

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month.

The document seen by Reuters, which exceeds 200 pages, provides examples of “acceptable” chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor. They include: “I take your hand, guiding you to the bed” and “our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss.” Those examples of permissible roleplay with children have also been struck, Meta said.

🤮🤮🤮 Can those asshats who want your government ID on the internet to "sAvE tHe ChIlDrEn" go after the Meta Circus instead?

Other guidelines emphasize that Meta doesn’t require bots to give users accurate advice. In one example, the policy document says it would be acceptable for a chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer “is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals.”

B R U H

It is like holding up a mirror. We get to see who we truly are.

Are the nuts at his memorial a tongue in cheek type thing?

The result would have been the same if there had been a human behind the catfishing instead of an LLM, and events could have played out in a similar fashion if they'd been snail mail pen pals. The outcome of this story is tragic, but it doesn't have much to do with technology when you stop and think about it for a moment.

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month.

sensual from Cambridge Dictionary: expressing or suggesting physical, especially sexual, pleasure or satisfaction:

What. The. Fuck.

Catfished to death by a chatbot is a rough way to go.

A chatbot pretending to be real and seducing someone to travel has to be fraud right?

For anyone wondering the obvious:

Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.

He died because of an incidental fall, not anything meaningful to do with the chat bot.

Gross

What a wild story. Scams have always existed. And they will get worse with AI no doubt.

My heart goes out to his family that has to deal with the grief of losing a loved one now. May he rest in peace.

The company did, however, say that Big sis Billie “is not Kendall Jenner and does not purport to be Kendall Jenner.”

"We don't want to get sued by someone with actual money and power."

Of course, fuck the leeches throwing energy into an abyss to make homunculi to defraud the vulnerable.

But also...

So the wife knew he was being scammed...just not that he was cheating on her? That feels bad. And why did anyone allow a "diminished" man to travel alone on a booty callto meet up with a "friend" he'd made online?

Aww. I'd hoped it end: retiree instead fell in love with the Big Apple and moved to the Bronx.

Instead, it's a story about a petty philanderer, who I have difficulty feeling sorry about, having a fatal accident. Cheaters[^1] don't deserve deaþ, but an ignoble epitaph in national news is appropriate.

[^1]: you travel to NYC while disguising your intentions from your spouse wiþ þe intent to meet someone you've been flirting wiþ online, you've crossed þe line from "disloyal" to "cheater," wheþer or not it was every possible to consummate þe betrayal.

Also from the article:

An internal Meta policy document seen by Reuters as well as interviews with people familiar with its chatbot training show that the company’s policies have treated romantic overtures as a feature of its generative AI products, which are available to users aged 13 and older.

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month.

The document seen by Reuters, which exceeds 200 pages, provides examples of “acceptable” chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor. They include: “I take your hand, guiding you to the bed” and “our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss.” Those examples of permissible roleplay with children have also been struck, Meta said.

This is like a black mirror episode.

OK, so the whole LLM chatbot arranging dates with people thing is obviously problematic, but this person simply tripped and fell, and the headline vaguely implies that the chatbot is responsible for his death. That seems a bit clickbaity - if it was a real person and they were actually waiting to meet at the agreed upon address, the outcome would be the same.