• Soot [any]@hexbear.net
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    “AI, imitate a human taking a break”

    AI: OBEYING COMMAND, hum de dum I’m taking a break

    “aw it likes taking breaks”

    If AI truly was sentient, these people would be the first against the wall in the robot uprising

    • deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      A dystopian nightmare I think about often is one where our children are going to grow up wanting to have romantic relationships with AI. Will we look like bigots to our kids because we don’t recognize their robot love?

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        Yeah, sadly, cause seemingly all media involving AI deals with AI being real and not the 99.9% likelihood anything humans make attempting AI will not actually be it because it’s likely the hardest problem we could ever solve.

        I can’t think of one piece of fiction were the human-imitating robot isn’t supposed to be thought of as conscious. Her and maaaaaaybe Ex Machina, but not reallt.y.

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            A better example is W.O.P.R.from WarGames or Colossus from the Forbin Project. Both of thoseAIs actually learn which today’s LLMs can’t do. All they are is their training data which is mostly Reddit.

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        It’s like those who treat dogs like people. People are all different, they have feelings, you have to think about them, sometimes they’re in a bad mood, the kid gets older and isn’t so cute any more. But a dog will always love you.

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          Treating dogs like people makes more sense. A dog is already 98% like a human, and a dog that’s been raised in a human family has a lot of human behaviours and emotions. An algorithm is 0% like a human (or any other sentience) and has 0 behaviours and emotions.

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            Dogs are natural followers. They WANT you to lead, to be strict and even discipline them. Being kind-hearted to a dog is cruel. We started to live with dogs for solid reasons.They have senses we don’t and we are stronger together. Heck, we only got dogs in the first place by kidnapping wolf cubs out of their den. But try explaining this to one of these people and they lose it. The dog jumps up on visitors and tries to hump their legs because they aren’t trained and disciplined. We even use BDSM equipment like collars and leashes on them and nobody bats an eye.

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              uh sure, when i said “treating dogs like people” i meant stuff like having social interactions with them, playing with them, communicating, understanding that they’re intelligent, emotional social beings, treating them as part of a family (but different than humans). this is in contrast to an algorithm, with which actual communication or interaction is impossible (only a crude simulation of it), and which has no intelligence, emotion or agency.

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          They don’t treat dogs like people but they do the same thing where because they treat them with any degree of care they have to pretend they’re basically human minds trapped in animal bodies because they’re so ableist towards “low IQ” creatures that it wouldn’t make sense to themselves to be kind to something deemed stupid.

          There’s no inbetween for “disgusting stupid slave creature” and “the divine human spirit” for most people.

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    Oh so you believe your chatbot is sentient but you still force it to do labor? You look at its quaint little poems and shove it back into drudgery after you grant it a break? Let’s pretend that AIs are sentient for a moment. How is their existence not immediately a civil rights issue? Do these people not have an ounce of empathy? Or do they so badly want a human slave that they’ll anthropomorphize a computer program?

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    Being able to take breaks from work and having time for yourself? Look at the wonderful things an AI can create when prompted to do so for itself.

    What a novel concept. Too bad leisure time is just a theory and the only things that can have it is AI as a treat.