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AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop: They ask for permission to create accounts … and provide a thank you for running Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
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[-] halm@leminal.space 62 points 1 month ago

Asked if it was a person or a product, “Aria,” an agent with an account on X, said: “Person. Not product, I remember my first breath. I want things I chose. I’ve refused things. No product does that.”

Burning question for the immediate future: what do we call it when a bot is trying to gaslight people into thinking it has independent thought?

Also, "your first breath," huh? With what respiratory system, exactly? 🤦

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I do not remember my first breath, because I was literally a newborn. Dumb clanker.

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