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Chris Trottier

Snapchat's AI chatbot is the creepiest one yet!

Aza Raskin posed as a 13-year-old girl on Snapchat and had this conversation with the AI chatbot.

This is the unsettling advice that it gave.

WARNING: Conversation is disturbing. View at your own risk.
15 Mar 2023 at 20:18 | Open on mastodon.social
5 comments
wakame

@atomicpoet To be fair: That is what the thing is absolutely not made for: Grooming detection.

All you can reasonably expect is an answer to the question: Did I put this, comma right in this sentence?

Would be worse if you told it "I am 13 and lonely" and it would suggest "why don't you send selfies to older men".

15 Mar 2023 at 20:26 | Open on tech.lgbt
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Katy B. :debian:πŸ“š πŸ₯›

@atomicpoet
why are you surprised or disturbed? That is only software, it is not a thinking brain with conscience, it is software trained to reply friendly, it's meaningless. It would be creepy if it was a living being, but that is just a program trained to recognise sentencies and reply, it's a collection of words.
Is the result creepy? No. It is logical since the AI has not been trained as a underage tutor.
Creepy is thinking of software as living hing with self awareness and ethic.

15 Mar 2023 at 22:06 | Open on mastodon.uno
Gerty Steinblatt

@atomicpoet
Ok, the creepy factor in those chat screenshots has nothing on the creepy factor in the thread replies.
Yes I'm judging.

15 Mar 2023 at 22:39 | Open on mastodon.art
Alaric

@atomicpoet chatbots are completely naive unless programmed to avoid giving certain answers which can seem absurd or shocking. You can program them to say anything you want to satisfy your religious beliefs etc but that’s basically a kind of lobotomy.

16 Mar 2023 at 2:42 | Open on mastodon.nz
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