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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.
Putting the 2 statements side by side implies they are connected. For the media illiterate it can be very misleading.
Initially I wanted to defend the headline because it’s not ‘literally’ suggesting any AI wrongdoing, but I can say that because I know headlines are written to be this way so I know what to dismiss. It’s a manipulative practice and that’s a shame
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.
I don’t think that’ll work how you think it’ll work
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.
What a crazy response to your loved one dying/disappearing
He fell over. I think they understand that that probably would have happened eventually anyway and that the AI didn’t really have anything to do with it.
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…
When people complain that their parents were able to afford an education and a home off the back of a single part-time income… yeah that isn’t exaggeration. You really could do that in the 70’s-80’s. Now it takes 4 full-time employed unrelated roommates sharing an apartment to make rent every month.
I don’t know if you were present in the “millennials just need to stop eating avocado toast and pull themselves up by their bootstraps” conversations, but all the rampant hate for the Baby Boomers didn’t come from nowhere. This is why it exists. Our parents (and their parents, depending how old you are) had the easiest and most luxurious existence that has ever been possible in American history, ever, and then pulled up the ladder behind them. When faced with the fact that they’ve made the life they lived impossible for following generations, the popular response is to blame the children and call them lazy.
“When I was your age, I walked into a car dealership with a smile and a firm handshake right after high school graduation and that’s all it took to get a job. A year later I owned a home and was married expecting a child. It’s easy, you just don’t want to work.”
No grandpa, because you and your buddies decided the purpose of your life was to extract all possible value out of everything and leave behind a shriveled up husk of a country, not one single independent detail of that story is still possible.
Kids these days don’t even know the future that was stolen away from them by their own parents or grandparents.
That was before republicans destroyed upward mobility in America.
most people still don’t realize how far we’ve fallen
In the 1980s one could actually afford a degree off of washing dishes on the side or working 3 months in the summer
And yet the boomers just think we’re lazy
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 have millenia of experience of people being idiots by being horny. This is just the first time we’ve seen a mass deployment of personalized horny generators.
Loneliness is also a thing, and I’d guess it’s rising. Falls under mental health also I guess. I also don’t relate, but we can look at the history of sex tourism, ‘mail order brides’ , dating sites etc, scams in general and there is a fair bit of cross over maybe. Add to the mix these pseudo intelligent LLMs that seem to serve to please and here we are. What I don’t get is how users falling for them aren’t having the bubble burst by the context issues and inconsistent coherence. Perhaps loneliness and other mental issues result in us hearing/seeing what we want to. Self reinforced illusion to fullfill some sort of need. Just speculating tbh.
I think my main thing with it, because largely I totally get what you’re saying, is that there is nothing that makes it not obvious how fake it all is. Even a mail-order bride is a real person that someone could hope would actually love them given some time.
Damn ai already started taking us out?
… but only for the purpose of f…ing you over :)
Taking out the stupid or mentally ill(who are different, and I do feel a little bad putting them in with “stupid”, but these are the clear primary victims of the current AI lies).
I’m sure we’ll get it way out of hand and the bots will start getting properly clever but right now, like, the fuck guys.
what an absolutly disturbing read
It is like holding up a mirror. We get to see who we truly are.
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Are the nuts at his memorial a tongue in cheek type thing?
Dude…
