This cutesy idea of making hardware pretend to be human and have a fake need for dignity is disgusting.
If I smash my thumb, I can yell at my hammer to go fuck a cactus and throw it on the floor. I don’t need any moral panic as if I am going to cuss out humans if I get away with yelling at my hammer.
I tell my Google assistant to go fuck itself every time I ask for directions to a place, and it asks me “which one” when the second nearest is over 100 miles away. I also tell it to fuck itself every time it just stops listening while I’m talking without telling me, which is shockingly often.
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Don’t throw hammers unless you’re doing the hammer throw, respect your tools.
It bit me. It must be punished.
Politeness and dignity are just as much for yourself as for the recipient.
Time for Spanish to have a new word for “light bulb!”
Seriously, this does highlight the inherent biases we find in AI language models. Also I don’t need a robot to be condescending to me; it needs to go fuck itself now more than ever.
“bombilla”
- FBI is on their way!
Is “la luz” so fucking hard?
Words are very real. Please keep them respectful.
You were on the list the moment you installed the assistant that steals all your personal information and tracks you.
Yeah. Their motto isn’t “Kill some humans.”, It’s “Kill all humans.”.
(Except Fry)
My SO swears at his personal assistant all the time and I feel like it has gotten more vindictive over time and refuses to listen to simple tasks
Oh I’m absolutely certain they have gotten worse over time. We have had the same setup for YEARS with no changes and it’s been getting worse.
We would say “Alexa, praise the sun” which is our phase for all lights, maximum brightness and at the beginning it worked one hundred percent of the time.
Now it’s a 3 way roll of the dice whether it works, gives us a description of what the sun is, or plays a song called “Raise The Son”.
In my house if it doesn’t understand you, you cuss at it and then it usually understands. If not, ramp up the swears until it wants to listen
The amount of verbal abuse my Google Assistant has absorbed will guarantee I’ll be first against the wall when the machines come. But I’ll know: she really is a distended sack of dumb-ass diodes.
I swear at my assistant all the time. It’s a computer, it doesn’t think or feel.
