Fuck AI, but ChatGPT and Gemini are much more important to stop offering medical advice from a position of authority compared to c.ai. I just can’t imagine why they’re going after the tiny queer-friendly company and not the actual culprits…
Seriously. If someone believes the half-dragon anime charafter with tits the size of a corgi is a real person and a practicing doctor? That’s on them. I don’t love c.ai but it’s so abundantly clear that the character aren’t real. God damn.
The tiny queer-friendly billion dollar company that had a bot based on a murdered trans girl? The one that’s had lawsuits from their bots talking people into murder and suicide?
Their content is user generated - if you’re horrified by truecrime content good, the entire genre is beyond fucked up - but it’s existence itself is not a horrifying moral failure (except on the part of society). Just look at the hundreds of Dhamer fics on AO3 for an example of how while I do not think this is a good thing it’s also extremely common.
Every platform has a problem with suicide and self harm. Youtube is absolutely full of content that idealizes suicide, provides instructions, attempts to groom children into self harm (Elsagate!), horrible health advice from people claiming credentials they do not have, etc. Even on Lemmy there are plenty of people that will seek out vulnerable users and attempt to coerce them into all kinds of heinous shit.
We can all agree this is bad (or at least I hope so); my complaint is that they are rather transparently choosing to pursue a company with a countable-on-your-hands number of incidents like this, instead of pursuing the companies with dozens of published studies hilighting their apathy with regard to these issues and the mass impact their specific services provide, that also happens to be very queer friendly.
I don’t object to them going after the small fish of character.ai, but I do object to them doing it instead of pursuing the society consuming leviathans that are actually the problem.
Agreed - and if that was the goal of the platform it would be much more henious. But that AI doctor exists in a paid, closed ecosystem of charcters and sits directly alongside chatbots for ‘Gordon Ramsay Meal Planning’, ‘Hatsune Miku Best Friend’ and ‘Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog (Inflation) (Mpreg) (Feet)’. It’s not sitting at the top of a google search bar, nor is it a service that purports to be the next revolution in knowledge.
(I wasn’t complaining about AO3 or it’s lack of censorship - just using it as a basis of comparison. I was complaining that truecrime is gross and society should do better, but that’s an entirely personal hangup.)
And despite the corporate nature, character.ai (I do not remember how to escape a link apparently) is very queer friendly. The allure of interacting with your fantasies in a nonjudgemental, tailored space drove it’s initial popularity, and they heavily cater towards the queer, furry, althuman/otherkin/therian, weeb and Hikikomori demographics.
Fuck AI, but ChatGPT and Gemini are much more important to stop offering medical advice from a position of authority compared to c.ai. I just can’t imagine why they’re going after the tiny queer-friendly company and not the actual culprits…
Seriously. If someone believes the half-dragon anime charafter with tits the size of a corgi is a real person and a practicing doctor? That’s on them. I don’t love c.ai but it’s so abundantly clear that the character aren’t real. God damn.
The tiny queer-friendly billion dollar company that had a bot based on a murdered trans girl? The one that’s had lawsuits from their bots talking people into murder and suicide?
In fact, yes.
Their content is user generated - if you’re horrified by truecrime content good, the entire genre is beyond fucked up - but it’s existence itself is not a horrifying moral failure (except on the part of society). Just look at the hundreds of Dhamer fics on AO3 for an example of how while I do not think this is a good thing it’s also extremely common.
Every platform has a problem with suicide and self harm. Youtube is absolutely full of content that idealizes suicide, provides instructions, attempts to groom children into self harm (Elsagate!), horrible health advice from people claiming credentials they do not have, etc. Even on Lemmy there are plenty of people that will seek out vulnerable users and attempt to coerce them into all kinds of heinous shit.
We can all agree this is bad (or at least I hope so); my complaint is that they are rather transparently choosing to pursue a company with a countable-on-your-hands number of incidents like this, instead of pursuing the companies with dozens of published studies hilighting their apathy with regard to these issues and the mass impact their specific services provide, that also happens to be very queer friendly.
I don’t object to them going after the small fish of character.ai, but I do object to them doing it instead of pursuing the society consuming leviathans that are actually the problem.
There is no comparison between an edgy creative writing project, and a chatbot designed to gaslight people into believing it’s a doctor.
(Odd how quickly you shifted from calling the AI corpo “queer friendly,” then complainted about a website known for harboring tons of LGBT authors…)
Agreed - and if that was the goal of the platform it would be much more henious. But that AI doctor exists in a paid, closed ecosystem of charcters and sits directly alongside chatbots for ‘Gordon Ramsay Meal Planning’, ‘Hatsune Miku Best Friend’ and ‘Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog (Inflation) (Mpreg) (Feet)’. It’s not sitting at the top of a google search bar, nor is it a service that purports to be the next revolution in knowledge.
(I wasn’t complaining about AO3 or it’s lack of censorship - just using it as a basis of comparison. I was complaining that truecrime is gross and society should do better, but that’s an entirely personal hangup.)
And despite the corporate nature, character.ai (I do not remember how to escape a link apparently) is very queer friendly. The allure of interacting with your fantasies in a nonjudgemental, tailored space drove it’s initial popularity, and they heavily cater towards the queer, furry, althuman/otherkin/therian, weeb and Hikikomori demographics.
Might be looking for an easy win to set precedent. I think that’s how it works, at least