In this post, I wrote about the sad experience of having a friend use AI to wish me a happy birthday. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6627/ #AI #Blog #Blogging #Blogs @techtakes @fuck_ai
- froztbyte ( @froztbyte@awful.systems ) English11•10 days ago
why are so many posters falling over themselves to Dr Phil it up when OP didn’t ask for advice, fucking hell…
@froztbyte My theory is that they feel better giving advice rather than examining their feelings.
- froztbyte ( @froztbyte@awful.systems ) English10•11 days ago
damn, man, this is a gutpunch :| I’d be similarly dismayed
your friend who sends you audio recordings of them from various places they’re in sounds like a keeper - it’s great of them to share bits of their world with you in that manner :D
@froztbyte An absolute keeper, indeed!
- nigel ( @nigel@snac.lowkey.party ) 10•10 days ago
At a point in my life I too would have made this mistake. I have been oblivious to how the things I did would make others feel.
It is easy to want to write what we think the other person wants to hear from us, when the reality is that a single sentence that a person has taken the time and thought to write, is far more valuable than word noise generated from a plagiarism machine.I hope she understands, or you get a chance to explain that to her at some point.
oh and a belated happy birthday to you!
@nigel @techtakes @fuck_ai Oh yes! Thank you! I will explain to her soon, but thank you for commenting! I can’t find it now but someone else was thinking about all the insincere gifts they received from people, but at the moment, even those insincere gifts seem to be more thoughtful, but yes I will explain when it is a propper time.
- self ( @self@awful.systems ) English5•10 days ago
ah, that sounds like my post over on mastodon
- mountainriver ( @mountainriver@awful.systems ) English7•9 days ago
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- Soyweiser ( @Soyweiser@awful.systems ) English9•10 days ago
Happy birthday!
And sorry for your sad experience. Annoying how AI is degrading our supposedly genuine interactions (both by people using it like this, and people interpreting a honest message like AI (I do feel a bit sorry for all the people working in low level customer support who in addition to all the normal bullshit now have to deal with AI accusations for example)).
- Marijke Luttekes ( @mahryekuh@fosstodon.org ) 9•10 days ago
@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai Happy belated birthday! This post struck a nerve with me because in this case, AI took away one of the last bits of humanity left in our digital communication: a personal message from a real human.
Time and effort are valuable commodities. When your friend offloaded that to an AI, it took away from the value of the message. Maybe they spent time crafting the perfect prompt, but saying “it’s easier” negates that idea.
Thank you! Also, someone else thought the audio friend that sent an audio song to me of happy birthday was also an LLM/AI and that was the actual human one! Yikes! But agreed! Thing is, because I know LLM’s super well, I can tell what prompt she used and that just makes me sad because the prompt was something like write a happy birthday email to my writer friend. @mahryekuh @techtakes @fuck_ai
- Marijke Luttekes ( @mahryekuh@fosstodon.org ) 5•10 days ago
@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai You can make LLM songs but undoubtedly you would have noticed that; that gift sounds lovely, by the way.
Hopefully you and your “AI friend” can work this out together.
- webhat ( @webhat@infosec.exchange ) 8•10 days ago
@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai happy birthday 🎂
@webhat @techtakes @fuck_ai Thank you! Cookies and cakes ahoy! Yum!
- whereisk ( @whereisk@mstdn.social ) 7•10 days ago
@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai “it’s just easier”
I prefer a quick ‘happy birthday, I’m thinking of you and wish you the world’ than 3 pages of AI vomit. - TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) English6•10 days ago
Happy Birthday dude. This blog post capures the modern online experience uncannily well
- foo ✅ ( @slashdottir@mastodon.online ) 6•10 days ago
@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai
Good grief. Can’t be long now till they create some kind of AI secretary who will reply to all your emails and send out all the birthday and Christmas cards so you can become completely detached from all your friends and relatives.
- V0ldek ( @V0ldek@awful.systems ) English5•9 days ago
Most divorced people in the world pushing the boundary of how effectively one can estrange themselves from their family
- Bill ( @bmacDonald94@hostux.social ) 4•10 days ago
@slashdottir @weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai ~ That does have some appeal. lol😂
- blakestacey ( @blakestacey@awful.systems ) English5•10 days ago
Happy belated birthday!
- Blaze (he/him) ( @Blaze@sopuli.xyz ) English5•10 days ago
Happy birthday !
- Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary ( @pteryx@dice.camp ) 3•10 days ago
@weirdwriter @techtakes @fuck_ai
What a way to lose a friend.
- o7___o7 ( @o7___o7@awful.systems ) English3•7 days ago
This made my heart hurt bud. I hope it didn’t overshadow the rest of your day!
@o7___o7 Thank you! The audio email from my Dominican friend where he was telling me happy birthday made it all the more epic! There was another person that said, well, don’t be surprised if she writes about you writing about her using AI because that was uncalled for, but I just had such a visceral reaction, I was just like, I need to write about this because I am afraid this is going to get common in Casual settings and not just corporate kind of settings either. Thank you so much for your comment however! It made my night!
- o7___o7 ( @o7___o7@awful.systems ) English3•7 days ago
appreciate ya!
- Panda | 판다 ( @panda@assemblag.es ) 3•8 days ago
@weirdwriter @steve @techtakes @fuck_ai ‘LLMs give us ventriloquism in reverse. The mechanical dummy speaks through your mouth.’
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=9271 - MBM ( @MBM@lemmings.world ) English2•10 days ago
On the one hand I get why people would use LLMs to write their messages (finding the right words is hard). On the other hand, man is this dystopian. At some point you might as well just send the prompt directly, it has the same amount of information.
I wanted to see a tired typo in her email from a hard days work. I wanted her to mix up my age. I wanted to see the imperfections in the tired as fuck email because the fact she still wrote to me, even though she was tired and would’ve wrote down my incorrect age, the fact that she thought about me enough to craft something personal would have made everything worth it. @MBM