“people are using” them for this feels like misdirection. people are being pushed and sometimes forced into it, yea
its sad that its being pushed that way. and curated in a way that makes it appear likable and as something that ‘gets you’. but im aware that it’s able to do that by plagiarising datasets of who knows how many messages and texts from real people. its imitating the behavior of a facade of a friend.
people can surely argue that it’s semantics. and for sure it’s not the first time companies have made software to prey on people’s desires for connection. but at the end of the day its not what i meant by “cute robot friends”. what is currently here is an empty husk of predictive curated texts, made feasible to deploy as something people will use by decades of information and human connection destruction done by the same ones who are profiting
“people are using” them for this feels like misdirection. people are being pushed and sometimes forced into it, yea
its sad that its being pushed that way. and curated in a way that makes it appear likable and as something that ‘gets you’. but im aware that it’s able to do that by plagiarising datasets of who knows how many messages and texts from real people. its imitating the behavior of a facade of a friend.
people can surely argue that it’s semantics. and for sure it’s not the first time companies have made software to prey on people’s desires for connection. but at the end of the day its not what i meant by “cute robot friends”. what is currently here is an empty husk of predictive curated texts, made feasible to deploy as something people will use by decades of information and human connection destruction done by the same ones who are profiting
The problem is how undefinable cute robot friends is, since what fits the bill can very from person to person.
Except Wall-E we can all agree on that one.
thats true, i dont think it can come into view until we dismantle the system that can easily lead to people being taken advantage from the idea