Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
The result would have been the same if there had been a human behind the catfishing instead of an LLM, and events could have played out in a similar fashion if they’d been snail mail pen pals. The outcome of this story is tragic, but it doesn’t have much to do with technology when you stop and think about it for a moment.
My dude. Robots just conned a man. As you pointed out, that was previously only possible through engagement with actual humans.
Seeing as how just a dozen people on Fox News successfully conned the US into Fascism, it’s not comforting to know that can now be more easily accomplished through robots.
FB employs humans to catfish users?
I wouldn’t put it past them.
Missing the point and the problem evident in the story.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The difference is that one is done by some random people and the other is done by a corporation as a business model.
Or do you also not see the difference between a bunch of low-life pickpockets and Facebook hireing a few hundred pickpockets professionally?