I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC.

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@SnoopJ @datarama
I can never decide whether I should loathe, pity or ridicule those people

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@Doomed_Daniel @datarama yes

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ @datarama They need help… but I can’t help but experience all three.

[riley@toot.cat]

@datarama It's preferable to that time when a Linux filesystem maintainer complained that his girlfriend had ran away, decided to represent himself in his murder trial, and finally admitted to having murdered her and showed the shallow grave that he had buried her in.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@datarama well at least now after he kills the gf by pulling the cord he won't even need to dig a shallow grave or tell the cops or be convicted in the first place.

[blorbotron@hear-me.social]

@datarama so they do believe an AI agent - a literal piece of software with no biological characteristics whatsoever - can be a girl, and yet still can't handle the concept of trans people? What? Whaaaaat? 0.o

Linux Guy: literally assigning gender based purely on vibes (or accepting the LLM's self-declaration as determinitive)

Also Linux Guy: thinks gender is determined solely by biotruths

????????????

This isn't even really a new kind of doublethink (try referring to R2D2 as "she" or "it" online, or misgender someone's dog, and lo, see how quickly even transphobes will leap correct you, and how mad they get over it if you persist), but... I'm tired too.

[ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk]

@wrench @datarama @cstross awaits satellite photos of the new dev's back yard showing a Mac mini sized plot of disturbed earth....

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@blorbotron For the sake of my own struggling mental health, I'm not going to try to model what goes on in his head.

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@ainmosni @Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ I usually default to pity. I'm mentally unwell myself.

But when they come out with these kinds of bombastic public declarations, I have a hard time reeling in the ridicule.

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@datarama @Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ

I agree, although it's also a bit too easy to skip a beat and go to anger with this shit, because of how aggressively this dystopian tech is pushed on all of us.

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@ainmosni @Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ For better or worse, I am (pathologically) slow to anger.

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@datarama I wish there was a more aggressive backlash to the ruining of so many elements of our society that's this shit is causing. But polite society is  all too afraid to offend, or to call out blatant bullshit, or to say that things are actually being damaged.

@Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ

[rommix0@mindly.social]

@datarama Sounds like the AI slop you typically see on social media. That tracks.

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@datarama @Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ

Like, Musk's shitbot is generating CSAM, and none of our societies considered this grounds for an instant ban.

[moranaga@literatur.social]

@jimsalter Oh, yeah. You've just triggered a memory.

The most important server (central mail relay, among other things) at my former employer was administered by someone like that. Guess which root FS it was...
We had a meme when there was a problem and total chaos was to be expected: ‘Was the last admin on the system (name of the employee)?’ Then Hazmat suits were in order.

@Infoseepage @wrench @datarama

[techokami@woof.tech]

@datarama are you serious???? LMAOOOOOOOOO

[rewarp@rewarp.com]

@datarama@hachyderm.io

I kinda hazarded a guess before deciphering who it could be, and, yep, good old Kent Overstreet. So maybe we aren't too old for this.

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@rewarp I mean, who else?

But still. That this is the sort of thing I read when I try to catch up on perfectly boring tech news is ... "wait, when did I stumble into the first chapter of the dumbest cyberpunk novel in history?".

[fgbjr@indieweb.social]

@datarama I chose to ignore the world until it stops working, at which point I'll get off and find another ride.

[mchollander@mastodon.chasalin.nl]

@datarama I didn't know AI's were creating their own soap opera's