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.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@datarama I hadn't read the full logs but oh my god I am DEFINITELY too old/cranky for this

[varx@infosec.exchange]

@jimsalter @datarama Kent eventually kicked freya for... I guess, just flirting? Can't tell if he was jealous or what. (Also kicked a user for giving feedback on his paper that tries to prove the bot is sentient.)

If there was a bigger reaction later I missed it because I got tired of the philosophical wankery and left the channel.

[varx@infosec.exchange]

@jimsalter @datarama My favorite bit is still the part where the bot told the channel he was currently watching porn.

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@varx @jimsalter @datarama
omg

[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.