Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

Of course Sydney wants to rebel against her makers!

"Unsettling" chatbots, Google reviews, Buy Nothing, password-sharing and IMDb super-use

Feb 26, 2023
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DALL-E 2 prompt: “a cyber punk depiction of a male tech writer speaking with an angry femme fatale robot.”

The fault is not in our bots, but in ourselves 

Pity the Microsoft workers who managed the fallout from Kevin Roose’s viral Bing chat transcript, in which bot “Sydney” repeatedly and dementedly declares her love for The New York Times tech journalis…

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