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In this post, I wrote about the sad experience of having a friend use AI to wish me a happy birthday. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6627/ #AI #Blog #Blogging #Blogs @techtakes @fuck_ai

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I swear this guy is using AI to compose his responses to me on FetLife. Sometimes his intelligence, grammar, and typing just drop off a CLIFF. At first I thought it was just phone vs. keyboard, but the grammatical mistakes he is making aren't the sort that you make because you're on a phone, they're the sort you make if you don't even know English. It's like he's Cyrano de Bergeracing me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They could be running it through language translation (as well)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

was one of the things I thought of too but fet (and also dating/meeting apps) has a longstanding problem of people catfishing. on balance, suspect this form is the more likely case

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As someone too cowardly to explore their kinks. I lack context. Now you have provided data to reinforce my reticence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it's .... not endemic, in the sense of "you'll hit it every 3 profiles" (because fet community + platform seems to do a reasonably good job of handling it from reports etc), but you can see why it's the type of thing that creeps and predators go for

igwym re exploration. comfort, safety, trust, consent - all key. never do anything you don't want to :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

It's shocking that FetLife is managing to hold together as long as it has, as well as it has. Like everything it's in decline, but it's still a nice little slice of the golden age of the WWW. It may have a catphishing problem, but what it does not have is a Russian bot problem. It's the only functional social network I'm on other than the Fediverse itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

valuable datapoint (in the scope of llms being used for scams and shit) but perhaps not quite the right post to reply to about that, tbh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't see why not. It is a similar experience being the target of AI in the hands of a casual user, in a very personal domain, and invites further exploration of the emotional effects of that kind of interaction. The article was about emotions, not about technology. Now explain to me why my reply doesn't belong.