bsky.app/profile/chuc... it was this Chuck Tingle post that was directly above yours in my feed.

If only there was some kind of institution that existed in order to INVESTIGATE things, and REPORT on the truth or facts behind them, rather than just rubber stamp everything that a business or politician has to say.

It is DESIGNED to encourage users to cultivate parasitic relationships with a program. It is designed to cultivate dependency so that its users will spend more on better and more developed bots. It is perverse and you are part of it for taking all its claims on 100% face value.

... how Jesus might have spoken and talked according to whoever wrote the program. We don't have to pretend that it's real, and the media's lack of literacy on this topic is dangerous. People - children - have literally killed themselves because the AI they made "Friends" with convinced them to.

First of all, no. They can't text with Jesus. When someone dresses up like Jesus for a Passion Play, that guy isn't literally Jesus. When you put a Nativity scene in your yard for Christmas that baby figurine isn't Jesus either. This is just a Bot that is programmed to act and talk like maybe...

Nothing. He just wanted to play Reindeer Games.

abcbirds.org/solutions/ke... it is actually a problem though

i just made a joke about chemically castrating a cartoonist do I need to worry about that being taken seriously? I don't know where the line is but there are things that are obvious jokes that are being treated as threats, and there are obvious threats which are being ignored.

9 Chickweed Lane guy is the only cartoonist that I think should be chemically castrated. Just to see what happens.

... emotional investment in this thing now, you can't just unhook grandma and lose her all over again! What would the kids think!

And that is the hook. This software is designed to cultivate a captive audience that can be charged any amount of fees and still pay them.

One that can't die or get sick or get old or go away in any way. Except that it can. Because those fees are going to go up. And new fees are going to be added. Time limits are going to be placed on how much access you get with it. What are you going to do, not pay those fees? You have an ...

Which, yay not racist, but at the same time that is who your elderly relatives are, and this is a sanitized imperfect copy of what this bot thinks that your relative could have been. But let's say you don't care. You buy it anyway. You sign up for a yearly plan and you get a permanent grandma.

... based on a short video and a database of cliches that the bot has to draw upon. It is going to tell fun but basic stories, it is going to give basic life advice, it is NOT going to have embarrassing outdated opinions which your elderly relative probably has at least one of.

Career-ending is probably a stretch. She publicly endorsed blackface, she made fun of rape victims even after having been one herself, any of those should have been career ending. There will always be right-wing organizations prepared to keep people like her with a job.

I am so sorry to read this. Charlie was so good.