Seriously, so many things in this story are crazy. She throws us off by leading with “Chatbots, on the other hand, are not sentient human beings who can be harmed by abusive language from users.” Hey, despite the clickbait headline, it sounds like the writer’s not insane! She doesn’t think we’re living in a dystopian…

I don’t think you mean “bad faith,” but in any case, it seems like the grays is the only place where there’s some critical thinking being applied. How exactly do you even defend statements like this:

New rule, how about we stop using the word “abuse” in terms of people interacting with software programs? At best, it’s idiotic, and creepy misplaced anthropomorphism, at worst, it’s actively offensive to actual humans who’ve been actually abused by other actual humans. You can’t abuse, or sexually harass, a chatbot…

You’d think this is something you wouldn’t have to explain to people, but I think Kylie Cheung and the people commenting here watched Westworld and think it’s real. 

The Metaverse is not a thing that exists, yet. All of this VR abuse stuff, is easy to program around. Just allow people to block users. If someone’s chasing you around “groping” you and you don’t want that, you’re not being sexually assaulted, but certainly you’re not having an enjoyable experience. But it has many,…

If I’m sitting at home in bed, horny, and fantasizing about getting raped, does that mean I want to get raped? Or that I approve of rape? Or any other fantasy, does it mean it’s something that I would do in real life? Does my fantasy in my head have anything at all to do with morality? If there were an article about…

Or for someone who punches, or humps! their pillow. Or somehow who verbally eviscerates an unresponsive IVR. Saying nasty things to a wall vs saying nasty things to a human being, these are not comparable things. One of them is shitty, and one of them has nothing to do with morality or ethics or being a good or a bad…

I couldn’t care less about what someone says to a chatbot. But it’s actually fairly disturbing that some decent size percentage of the human population is incapable of understanding that a bot is inanimate, or that morality or ethics is somehow involved when an individual is interacting with a bot. This is some crazy…

“people who will abuse an AI will also abuse a real person.”

How the fuck do you abuse a chat bot? If you smack your remote control because it’s not working, did you abuse your remote control? How about when you work out and hit a punching bag? Abuser! Why should anyone care what anyone says to an inanimate object, or a piece of code? This is literally the stupidest thing I…

I don’t think people are questioning it for that reason, they’re questioning it because unintentional ODs are relatively common and aren’t really ever “sufficiently” investigated. There’s really not enough info for any armchair detective to decide anything about this case. In a vacuum it’s much more likely that there…

You could easily get those in your system from street drugs. Get some cocaine or molly or some opioid and you never know what could be in there. 

What? Where do you think opioid deaths happen? Plenty of people are clearly taking fentanyl while “hanging out at home” and many other places, such as while riding public transportation in Denver. Like literally 100k people a year in the US are dying from doing exactly this type of thing.

regarding the cultural change, I don’t recall anyone really making height comments about Nicole Kidman being with Tom Cruise in the 90s, and she must be at least 4-5 inches taller than him right? So it seems weird that people are talking about height in relation to Tom Holland

I understand the family being upset, but, is there something left out here that’s making people think something criminal happened? I don’t understand, it sounds like she OD’d, from drinking too much while also doing some narcotics at some point? And also maybe took some ant-nausea drugs trying to prevent a hangover…

“Of course, Teigen and her wealthy guests are actually a lot more like Squid Game’s VIPs than the show’s contestants, many of whom are so deeply entrapped in debt that they’re willing to risk gruesome death for a miniscule chance at a fortune... You’d think by now that Teigen ... would know better than to throw a…

Dunno, Pete Davidson has been open about having BPD which people with BPD are basically the definition of “toxic” but seems kinda rude to just talk about him being toxic for no particular reason that I can think of except that he has BPD

In the Dune universe for all you know people who are 100 years old look like they’re 38. If a 38-year-old looked like what a 38-year-old looks like in real life in 2021, that would actually be weird. Makes little sense to complain about actor age in a sci-fi story.

She’s a thing, because she’s pretty good? Had never really listened to Lana del Rey before and I’m not her target audience, but I thought her Chemtrails album earlier this year was very good. Did think the new one was kinda boring.

Sure, but that is not how a prop gun would be used in a movie, where you don’t need to generate live sound? I would assume it’s totally normal to be firing a prop gun like you are actually firing a gun in a movie. Like, finger on the trigger, gun pointed in the air, pull the trigger intentionally ... expect there to…