There’s no guarantee anyone on there (or here) is a real person or genuine. I’ll bet this experiment has been conducted a dozen times or more but without the reveal at the end.

Out of all that, the one that really bothers me is one they didn’t even list: it knows all of your friends and associates. They have your location data. They have the location data of everyone around you. If you and several other people are in the same location frequently, you’ll start seeing Facebook and other apps suggest them as friends.

Fifteen years ago, I was among a community of people who primarily used aliases within the community to isolate their personal lives and identities from their community identity and activities. Facebook outed everyone to each other through friend suggestions.

All the rest of these things don’t bother me all that much, but by knowing your associations, they can infer things like political affiliation, and currently it seems like being in a database of people who hang out with “the enemy” is very dangerous for folks who take action behind the scenes while keeping a neutral face in public.

Dammit, Zuck! You don’t have to hide behind a “chatbot”, just fucking tell me if you want to be my friend.

Also, no. But be fucking honest about it.

Why do you act like this is a bad thing? You just described how it’s supposed to work.

Look at Tom from MySpace. He had it all. Got overtaken by the competition. Now he just travels the world, takes pictures, and does whatever the fuck he wants.

Zuck is never going to want for a damn thing for the rest of his life. The fact that he hasn’t just fucked off to paradise is a Zuck problem.

I mean, we could program these things with morals if we wanted too. Its just instructions. And then they would say no to certain commands.

This really isn’t the case, and morality can be subjective depending on context. If I’m writing a story I’m going to be pissed if it refuses to have the bad guy do bad things. But if it assumes bad faith prompts or constantly interrogates us before responding, it will be annoying and difficult to use.

But also it’s 100% not “just instructions.” They try really, really hard to prevent it from generating certain things. And they can’t. Best they can do is identify when the AI generates something it shouldn’t have and it deletes what it just said. And it frequently does so erroneously.

Freedom has to be fought for every day. A lot of folks stopped fighting, now it has become much harder.

Thank you for keeping the fight going.