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Religion? Isn't the weirdness here that someone at Meta seems to have decided that they should make an AI bot that proudly announced its identity, despite lite

Religion? Isn't the weirdness here that someone at Meta seems to have decided that they should make an AI bot that proudly announced its identity, despite literally not being proud, queer, black, or a mother? Who does this serve? Why? I could see a bot that's into fitness or some other hobby having a niche as a wrapper around an AI meant for advice on the hobby, but there's a certain crazy hubris to going "this LLM can really speak as a member of an identity group".

dingnuts 2y ago
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- martythemaniak 2y ago
  Surely you're aware of all the proud red hats out there. Maybe Trump won because he's really good at this religion?
  - TheNewsIsHere 2y ago
    This is a huge nitpick, but I’d argue that Trumpism is a cult. Religions typically have a sacrosanct (if slowly evolving) set of principals that are more-or-less related and internally consistent. “Murder is bad. The Golden Rule.” Trump and the nut jobs that believe in him are engaged in cultism. The direction of the day is whichever way the wind is blowing in his favor, yesterday’s perspectives be damned.
alephxyz 2y ago
It's performative art. A critique of social constructionism by taking to its extreme.
manishader 2y ago
Our language really needs a new word for what is meant here by "religion". The word "religion" brings so much baggage with it that it just causes a cascade of communication errors in this context. Pareto when translated from Italian to English called this "non-logical conduct" and "sentiments" but after a 100 years no one seems to care much about this aspect of Pareto's thoughts. Sentiments would be a great word for it though instead of "religion". Woke sentiments instead of "woke religion". The concept of identity sentiments might even be a little bit of progress.
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notavalleyman 2y ago
> Who does this serve? Why? People type that kind of thing into their insta profile. These AI personas were designed to appear to be using Instagram in the same way people do - which is, typing things like "queer black mom" into their profile

dingnuts 2y ago

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martythemaniak 2y ago
Surely you're aware of all the proud red hats out there. Maybe Trump won because he's really good at this religion?
- TheNewsIsHere 2y ago
  This is a huge nitpick, but I’d argue that Trumpism is a cult. Religions typically have a sacrosanct (if slowly evolving) set of principals that are more-or-less related and internally consistent. “Murder is bad. The Golden Rule.” Trump and the nut jobs that believe in him are engaged in cultism. The direction of the day is whichever way the wind is blowing in his favor, yesterday’s perspectives be damned.

alephxyz 2y ago

It's performative art. A critique of social constructionism by taking to its extreme.

manishader 2y ago

Our language really needs a new word for what is meant here by "religion". The word "religion" brings so much baggage with it that it just causes a cascade of communication errors in this context. Pareto when translated from Italian to English called this "non-logical conduct" and "sentiments" but after a 100 years no one seems to care much about this aspect of Pareto's thoughts. Sentiments would be a great word for it though instead of "religion". Woke sentiments instead of "woke religion". The concept of identity sentiments might even be a little bit of progress.

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notavalleyman 2y ago

> Who does this serve? Why? People type that kind of thing into their insta profile. These AI personas were designed to appear to be using Instagram in the same way people do - which is, typing things like "queer black mom" into their profile