I understand the point of this [formerly serious newspaper that has devolved into fluff] profile of #MarissaMayer (former CEO of Yahoo!) may be rage bait, so I am not including a link to it.

[sanzky@masto.es]

@_elena I remember when she made every remote yahoo employee come to the office while she built a nursery at her office exclusively for her daughter.

she is awful.

[andycarolan@social.lol]

@_elena Oh yes… I remember reading about that… and found it horrifying! I worry about the long term effects on social skills and ability to communicate.

Are we entering an era of AI-first parenting? 🤯

[scream@bots.robots.rodeo]

@HLunke AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

[cibersheep@mastodont.cat]

@_elena it looks like an ad, to be honest. If the protagonist would have been a ciswhite heteroman, I would have believe it. «ALEXA: Daughter? Do I have a daughter?».

[andrewmelder@mastodon.online]

@_elena dear god. I hope this is just a misguided made up anecdote to sell her AI platform. However, it also wouldn't surprise me if this actually happened.

[datn@xoxo.zone]

@_elena note from the field: this is not how people act who like cracking hard problems

[patrickleavy@mastodon.social]

@_elena @andycarolan perfection: "these people are not well"

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@cibersheep Mayer infamously went back to the office 2 weeks after giving birth (and she worked remotely the first week after the birth of her children).

I'm beginning to question how well she knows her own children - since bonding with them doesn't appear to be a priority. I feel terrible typing this, but what is the point of being a billionaire when you can't even take time off to spend precious time with your offspring? Isn't this the most important thing in life?

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@datn indeed! Plus thinking about three qualities of your child is NOT a hard problem. It's the easiest thing!

[iju@mastodon.social]

@_elena

To be fair, engineers are not famous for stuff like that. In that the only thing that changed in 20 years is that the person had someone (or some...THING..¹) to ask help from.

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¹ thank you William Shatner and Twilight Zone.

[aaron@cutie.city]

@_elena
Mom Of The Year: I know so much about my daughter that I couldn't possibly think of three things my child's teacher won't be in any way marking or judging me for
Lie Machine: here's three generic things that would apply to any stereotypical female offspring
Mom Of The Year: Yes! I've achieved parenting!

🤮

[datn@xoxo.zone]

@_elena I know, right? reportedly she was "overwhelmed" by the task.

i guess that given she saw it as hard, her approach ought to have been something like "*knuckle crack* let's begin with love"

instead it was "phone a fake friend made of stolen shit"

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@_elena The hard part of this problem is limiting myself to three bullet points for my kids!

Still wouldn't use an AI.

[thisislieven@c.im]

@kasperd @_elena True, but at the same time if I were to program an AI I would let it seek for some of the most unique and original answers rather than the most common.

And, given that mom felt comfortable asking this question to AI, I would not be surprised if it was given much more info on the kid voluntarily by her already.

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@_elena @andycarolan Tech is run by sociopaths. I cannot consider this in other terms any longer.

[errorbody@mastodon.social]

@_elena what the actual fuck

[markiejiang@mastodon.social]

@_elena reminds me of a recent realistic tv show about moms and daughters. the mom of an olympic champion (!) were asked to say some good qualities of her daughter. she thought really hard for a while, and came up with "she can handle pressure well". and when she was asked to say some weaknesses. and she came up instantly with a whole long list of "messy room" "has a cat" (!) "eat snack/junk food" "not punctual" ....

[bitanath@mastodon.social]

@_elena unmm you do know this was a paid promotion for dazzle, that you are now promoting… unpaid

[hugocornejo@mastodon.social]

@_elena they’re just trying to milk our reactions to push some new AI app you’ve never heard of. They know what they’re doing https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/dear-sydney-why-i-find-googles-ai-olympics-ad-so-disturbing/

[harib_murshidi@mastodon.social]

@andycarolan @_elena

Why would the #AI know more about her daughter than her actual mother ?! This might just be something to promote a certain brand of #aislop (even though it does make you look like a parent who happens to be somewhat clueles about their own kid)