alt-text for thumbnail in case it embeds: it is an image of a queer flag with an infinity symbol, on a drawn wooden background with the words “autistic people mistaken for AI” on it

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    I dunk on LLM hype a lot. Even so, I utterly despise the liberal tactic of accusing people they don't like of being LLM products. It's nearly identical to the chud tactic of calling people they don't like "NPCs."

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      2 months ago

      Trolls, bots, NPC's, ai, it's all the exact same attack - "this isn't a real person so I don't have to deal with their argument." It's a thought terminating cliche so they don't have to deal with the cognitive dissonance.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        By default I just assume that people with predictable and exhausting cliches are just indoctrinated that thoroughly, and are still people.

        The most blatant example of that is how many my-hero glazers, going back at least a decade, will say almost word for word "but humans must become an interplanetary species" to run interference for whatever environmental devastation, resource plundering, or worker abusing skullduggery their savior of humanity was up to today.

      • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]
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        2 months ago

        if i'm being completely honest i tell this to myself when i read something reactionary or hateful ... it helps to believe that they're a Koch bot or that they're being paid by rich assholes. maybe that's not something i should do?

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          People are quite capable of bigotry, hate, and ignorance.

          It arguably makes us more vulnerable to bad people if we assume bad people simply don't exist.

  • Angel [any]
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    2 months ago

    I've gotten this to a point where someone on my Steam friends list calls me an "AI" as a nickname.

  • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    The outrage about AI has definitely caught a lot of innocent people and artists up in it which is very bad.

    Makes little sense to me to fight AI in a way that hurts real people.

  • casskaydee [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Honestly, it’s pretty frustrating to keep hearing this. Just because I communicate differently or don’t express emotions the same way others do, it doesn’t mean I’m some kind of robot or AI. I’m a human being with thoughts, feelings, and a brain that works its own way. It’s exhausting to have to constantly prove that I’m not emotionless or cold just because I don’t communicate the way people expect.

    Being autistic means I process things differently—my emotions aren’t always obvious, and I don’t always use the same social cues. That doesn’t mean I’m incapable of connection or that I’m some kind of machine. It’s upsetting that people jump to that conclusion instead of taking the time to understand that neurodiversity is a thing, and not everyone thinks or talks the same way.

    It’s dehumanizing, and it needs to stop.

    spoiler

    I generated this response with ChatGPT a-little-trolling

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    I embrace the robot label, I have been running an Engine Heart campaign for over 2 years

  • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    ironically the audio in this video does sound a bit like text-to-speech. Not because of the intonation but becuase of how it was edited/filtered.