[–] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm highly skeptical of the reality of this study. I mean, sure: it's interesting and there's nothing inherently wrong with it.

However, women don't talk to AI like that. The flaw here is that they used "language women typically use" when corresponding with other humans. Except women know they're talking to a machine when they're prompting AI (unless they're boomers in which case both men and women are guilty!).

What woman is going to use, "could you possibly..." when telling an AI to do something? Women aren't stupid: They know it's a machine and not a person.

Could you possibly consider that this study doesn't really reveal anything at all other than maybe people who are silly enough to treat AI like a close associate are going to get equally silly output.

Now I want to see a study where they prompt the AI like it's their bro:

"Hey buddy, do me a solid and draft an email telling that dude I'm sorry about blowing him off until now..."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I read once that the tale of the three little pigs was modified from its original form to preach the Protestant work ethic and also as a form of Victorian-style propaganda, where the rich, educated landowner was the reasonable one.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Back in the day, rich people would fund hospitals and schools in hopes of getting to heaven.

    Actually, they did that to avoid peasant revolts. Attaching it to religion was just a convenient way to keep the church on their side so the pastors and priests would continue to preach the traditional message: "don't be violent against your oppressors, let God handle them and you'll be rewarded after you're dead."

    Without that regular, Sunday propaganda, revolts would've been much more common.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    So they want drones to slam into critical infrastructure. After all, if they lack obstacle avoidance...

    Drones that can avoid buildings, people, and electrical wiring? NO!

    Rocket-propelled Grenade-like drones? Totally fine!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Bill Gates tracking chip. You can tell it's the Australian version because it's a five-pointed star, designating your climate and local fauna.

    Remove the RAM successfully and you could make some money 🤌

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    You jest, but I used ChatGPT the other day to check a fact and it was right on!

    "Hey ChatGPT, do AIs often hallucinate and just make shit up?"

    At least it's honest... Until the context gets too long. Then it gets sick of chatting with us 🤷

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Being able to look up and verify just about any fact in seconds via a magical device that fits in your pocket and only needs to be charged once a day, then never using it to do that.

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