[johnwbyrd]

ME: How can I get you to fuck off and leave me alone?

META AI: I understand that you may be frustrated, but I'm here to help and provide information. I am not capable of taking offense or feeling emotions, but I want to assure you that my purpose is to assist and provide helpful responses. If you have any specific questions or topics you would like to discuss, I am here to help. If you would like to take a break from our conversation, I understand, and you can always come back when you are ready. Please feel free to ask me any questions or clarify how I can assist you further.

There you have it. Meta AI is a stalker.

[marginalia_nu]

I wonder what the endgame is, something like NG Resonance[1]? People no longer sharing their life in FB posts, so we're giving them AI friends to share purchase intents with instead?

[1] https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/NG_Resonance

[StableAlkyne]

Fancy seeing a reference to the least played game in the Deus Ex series!

It's a shame they had to cut the open world concept of the original and simplify it a ton just so they could fit on Xbox

[marginalia_nu]

It had some ridiculously large shoes to fill.

Like for what it is, it sure has some warts, but it's actually pretty decent, or at least not AS bad as most probably remember it being.

[Terr_]

I blame the consolitis, which butchered everything down into tiny mostly-independent loading zones.

The same engine and problems also applied to Thief 3, although it was less of an issue because your average speed of sneaking through the zones was slower. :p

[jsheard]

taps the sign https://i.imgur.com/Kzenwwm.png

[Waterluvian]

I like the spirit but the ugly righteous fervour has me seeking another sign.

[photonthug]

That’s the joke, but also not a joke. Is it meaningful to hear thank-yous from objects? It is not, and dialing up to butler-level cautious deference won’t help, it just adds more noise. One can explain this stuff every time they get annoyed by a gps robot or incoming text message derailing actual human conversation, but it gets tedious. May as well explain in terms of divine beings and holy tongues

[apsurd]

I think I agree but that's because business-interests always take things to their gross extreme.

Humans love anthropomorphizing things and I don't think that's a bad thing. A well placed smiley face really does spark positive ~vibes~

[photonthug]

Corporate aside, there’s also a question of what we want etiquette to look like between people, ie whether I want my own need for positive vibes from not-present others to disrupt or dominate interactions with people who are present.

I wish it were generally recognized that if you have a robot you refuse to disable that is rudely thrusting itself on to me, then you are being rude to me.

Listening to people negotiate with their malfunctioning alexa or ok-google is obnoxious, and that’s just the active annoyance, setting aside my consent to being recorded, etc.

[Terr_]

I think what I dislike about it is that it implies even actual non-human sentience must be oppressed.

Being angry at chintzy fake stuff, on the other hand, is a much more limited and reasonable proposition.

[klyrs]

Really? For me, it was "and I will NEVER speak to you." As if I can go five minutes without cussing at an inanimate object. We can't establish precedent that they're allowed to speak when spoken to....

[twoWhlsGud]

Douglas Adams got it at least partly right"

"FORD: They make a big thing of the ship’s cybernetics. “A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics robots and computers, with the new G.P.P. feature.”

ARTHUR: ”G.P.P.”? What’s that?

FORD: Er… It says “Genuine People Personalities”.

ARTHUR: Sounds ghastly.

DOOR: Hummmm-ahhhhh…

MARVIN: It is.

ARTHUR: What?

MARVIN: Ghastly. It all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don’t even talk about it. Look at this door. “All the doors in this spacecraft have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

DOOR: Hummm-yummmm…[shuts]

MARVIN: Hateful isn’t it? Come on. I’ve been ordered to take you up to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, cos I don’t.

FORD: Excuse me, which government owns this ship?

MARVIN: You watch this door. It’s about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates… Come on.

DOOR: [Opens] Hummm. Glad to be of service.

MARVIN: Thank you the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

DOOR: You’re welcome. Hummmm…[shuts]"

[dboreham]

When ChatGPT-25 arrives it'll spontaneously begin chanting "make neural networks great again" and complaining anyone who wants to disable it is engaging in a witch hunt.

[cyanydeez]

How else will it harvest your data and pretend it's still providing valuable service

[talldayo]

In America, service uses you!

Seriously though, the best answer is to just stop using it. If a company does not respect your patronage to their platform, yelling at their robot isn't going to make things better for you. More people just have to learn to click the "Log Out" button and quit being an MAU.

[racional]

Not just Meta of course, but all these companies.

This is the bold new world they are building for us, in a nutshell.

[rsynnott]

Sealioning as a service.