The fuck were they supposed to do, besides exclude minors?
It’s a chatbot. It’s spicy autocomplete. If ‘the robot shouldn’t do [blank]!’ was easy, we’d all be living an Isaac Asimov story. But this isn’t Google recommending glue when people asked for pizza toppings - it’s a site specifically for roleplaying with fictional characters. Some characters are gonna say wild shit. Fiction is supposed to be a safe place to step beyond the boundaries of everyday life.
This was a chatbot aping a character from Game Of Thrones. That’s an amoral hyperviolent setting I know some of y’all enjoyed watching. Is generating conversations based on that supposed to be worse than showing it on television? Does the inclusion of second-person pronouns make getting eaten by dragons an actionable threat?
Of fucking course a cheap knockoff of a Targaryen said some fucked-up things. That’s how you know it’s working! If it did not do that, it would not be mimicking a Targaryen. Is a single person on Lemmy going to get equally mad at George RR Martin for inventing these characters from whole cloth?
If some video game - even some fourth-wall-bending dating sim, like Doki Doki Literature Club - had been at the center of this, would anyone here even think to blame the creator?
Here’s the real implications of this event.
One, having guns in your house is a risk to your own family. Probably moreso than to anyone else in the world.
Two, the adult users who had all their logs erased by a panicking company deserve control over the software they use.
The fuck were they supposed to do, besides exclude minors?
It’s a chatbot. It’s spicy autocomplete. If ‘the robot shouldn’t do [blank]!’ was easy, we’d all be living an Isaac Asimov story. But this isn’t Google recommending glue when people asked for pizza toppings - it’s a site specifically for roleplaying with fictional characters. Some characters are gonna say wild shit. Fiction is supposed to be a safe place to step beyond the boundaries of everyday life.
This was a chatbot aping a character from Game Of Thrones. That’s an amoral hyperviolent setting I know some of y’all enjoyed watching. Is generating conversations based on that supposed to be worse than showing it on television? Does the inclusion of second-person pronouns make getting eaten by dragons an actionable threat?
Of fucking course a cheap knockoff of a Targaryen said some fucked-up things. That’s how you know it’s working! If it did not do that, it would not be mimicking a Targaryen. Is a single person on Lemmy going to get equally mad at George RR Martin for inventing these characters from whole cloth?
If some video game - even some fourth-wall-bending dating sim, like Doki Doki Literature Club - had been at the center of this, would anyone here even think to blame the creator?
Here’s the real implications of this event.
One, having guns in your house is a risk to your own family. Probably moreso than to anyone else in the world.
Two, the adult users who had all their logs erased by a panicking company deserve control over the software they use.