Unregulated and unrestricted :freeze-gamer: chatbots and chatbot-adjacent tech are inevitably going to be garbage in/garbage out. Worse, here, a kawaii childlike-appearing :libertarian-alert: waifu bot picked up enough /pol/ and /r9k/ from what it was fed by the usual fandom to become an even more efficient propaganda machine than the average :heated-gamer-moment:

Shit's fucked. :debord-tired:

I'll finish by posting :manhattan: in advance for likely and maybe inevitable treat defending in this thread. I've heard it all. I already touch grass regularly. Shit's still fucked.

    • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Chatbots are just sophisticated patten recognition software. You input enough racist sentences, the algorithm will associate those as the "correct" answer to certain question/prompts. Bored 4channers like to pull up to public-facing chatbots and get them to say vile stuff for the lulz. Garbage in, garbage out.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The more childlike the waifu presentation, the more likely right wing chanlords are going to want to dump barrels of nazi sewage into the input.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      Because chan types flood anything that's open to audience participation with their culture as soon as they get a whiff of its existence.

      I remember a clothes retailer having a t-shirt design competition where people could submit and vote on entries like 15 years ago. The top voted entry was Pedobear

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Toxic waste mixed with pretty much anything else is still toxic waste. Poorly restricted and barely regulated chatbots are going to absorb toxic waste from the creeps, right-wing weebs, and :freeze-gamer: types that tend to feed them.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        they’re mirrors and we’re the ones looking into them, of course they’ll be racist

        :what-the-hell:

        Who is the "we" you're talking about here? This sounds like the latest rehash of the fash-enabling "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory" excuse for nazi propaganda and related cognitohazards.

        No, people aren't intrinsically bigots and assuming that "we" as people are naturally holocaust deniers is a horrible take.

        • huf [he/him]
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          westoids high on our excellent culture which is not racist at all.

          arent vtuber audiences basically gamers? and you know what they're like...