Not really. A mirror shows an actual reflection of yourself. An AI response is a highly curated version of a particular subset of ideas, in fact, the more I think about it the more this analogy straight up implodes.
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Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 months ago
More like this\
tomiant@programming.dev 7 months ago
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Becauae Narcissus had a deeper more genuine thing.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 7 months ago
AIs specifically are designed to “please” with their responses, so it’s going to affirm you every step of the way and tell you your ideas are great (just like you of course).
MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Makes me think we must of missed out on news stories of people wanting to fuck clippy
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
jj4211@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Probably why when Microsoft wanted to take another go at a “smart assistant”, they went with Cortana…
Ypsilenna@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I once watched art videos on YouTube, and ended up finding a channel of a lady who was drawing weirdly described scenes from books she found. One of them was from an erotic fanfic about clippy, lmao
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Just tried searching “clippy rule 34”. Plenty of results.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
That particular allegory didn’t quite click until now, certainly that is become much clearer that it will just tell you what you want to hear, not necessarily anything true
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Is this why I can’t stand AI? Because it reflects back my unrepentant asshole tendencies? Fucken A I am immune to thine silicone deception for I would the great and mighty trauma!